Motivational Quotes

Change

One person's constant is another person's variable.

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.