Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mazzini, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Jackson, Nelson

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Andy Warhol

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

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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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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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 the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lynn Hall

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Naisbitt, John

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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