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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Angelou, Maya

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Constant change is here to stay.

18.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Susan Rice

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

45.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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 problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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