Motivational Quotes

Change

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Virgil

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

11.

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

12.

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

Mohammed

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

Dewar, Jeff

14.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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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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.

21.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

22.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

25.

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

26.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

31.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

32.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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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

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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

45.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.