Motivational Quotes

Change

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Mohammed

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Davis, William B.

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Burke, Edmund

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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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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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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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