Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Virgil

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Harrison Ford

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

Real Live Preacher

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.