Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heraclitus

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Virgil

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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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.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

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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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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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 the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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