Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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?

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

Bennett, Arnold

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Carol Burnett

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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 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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Brown, Les

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

Ruskin, John