Motivational Quotes

Change

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Change

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Christina Baldwin

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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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

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

Porter, Irene

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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