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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

Herford, Oliver

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Klee, Paul

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Ruskin, John

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Andy Warhol

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Glasgow, Ellen