Motivational Quotes

Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Waitley, Denis

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

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

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

Eliot, George

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Lynn Hall

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Paul, Jean

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Lee, Bruce

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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 has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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