Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Almanac, Mary S.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Menander of Athens

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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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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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'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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

31.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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