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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Mohammed

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

11.

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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Virgil

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Angelou, Maya

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Depree, Max

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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