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

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Brown, Les

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Davis, William B.

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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Ruskin, John

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

Jackson, Nelson

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Confucius

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon