Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Menander of Athens

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Virgil

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Heraclitus

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Davis, William B.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.