Motivational Quotes

Change

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Brown, Les

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

Heraclitus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hooker, Richard

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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.