Motivational Quotes

Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Herford, Oliver

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

11.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

12.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark