Motivational Quotes

Change

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

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

Murdock, Mike

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Shelton, Richard

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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

14.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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.

16.

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

Virgil

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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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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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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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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Andy Warhol

25.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

30.

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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Kearney

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

Butterworth, Eric

39.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

41.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.