Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

Mohammed

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Angelou, Maya

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Menander of Athens

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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

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

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Andy Warhol

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

Tilden, Bill

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

George, David Lloyd

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Murdock, Mike

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Mcgovern, William

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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 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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic