Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Tilden, Bill

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mohammed

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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