Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

Mohammed

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

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Rogers, Will

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Lynn Hall

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Paul, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Depree, Max

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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