Motivational Quotes

Change

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

- Bastos, Augusto Roa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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.

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

Gerhart, Susan

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Socrates

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

10.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

11.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

14.

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

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

21.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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.

25.

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

Mcgovern, William

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

27.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

28.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

29.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

31.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

35.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Udall, Mo

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