Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kearney

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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

Mohammed

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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?

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Harrison Ford

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Ovid

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Davis, William B.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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