Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Walesa, Lech

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Real Live Preacher

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.