Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Burke, Edmund

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Robbins, Anthony

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Ward, William A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Mohammed

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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