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 primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Tilden, Bill

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Menander of Athens

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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