Motivational Quotes

Change

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Burke, Edmund

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Heraclitus

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Paul, Jean

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

Felltham, Owen

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.