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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Spencer, Herbert

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Hooker, Richard

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Lynn Hall

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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

Confucius

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Andy Warhol

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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A rut is a grave with no ends.