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

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Menander of Athens

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

Andy Warhol

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Felltham, Owen

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Shaw, P.K.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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