Motivational Quotes

Change

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

- Alther, Lisa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Menander of Athens

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

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Virgil

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Dante Alighieri

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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