Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Ramsay Clark

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

22.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Shaw, P.K.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Porter, Irene

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

Andy Warhol