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

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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 cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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

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

Confucius

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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.

Sallust

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

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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