Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

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

Udall, Mo

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Ward, William A.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Angelou, Maya

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Constant change is here to stay.

20.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ramsay Clark

27.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Tilden, Bill

29.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

30.

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

Proust, Marcel

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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 are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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 rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.