Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

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

Socrates

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Mohammed

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Davis, William B.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Brown, Les

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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 emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Klee, Paul

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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