Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Mcgovern, William

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Tracy, Brian

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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

Petworth, John

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

Andy Warhol

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

Spander, Art