Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Klee, Paul

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

11.

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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Waitley, Denis

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Spander, Art

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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