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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

Davis, William B.

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

30.

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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Spander, Art

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

Eliot, George

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma