Motivational Quotes

Change

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Herford, Oliver

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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?

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

Proust, Marcel

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Mohammed

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.