Motivational Quotes

Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Draper, John W.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Paul, Jean

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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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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 entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Tilden, Bill