Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Best Quotes about Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Waitley, Denis

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.