Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

- Buddha

Best Quotes about Change

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

Andy Warhol

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Davis, William B.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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

11.

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

12.

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

Naisbitt, John

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Heraclitus

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Felltham, Owen

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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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

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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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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

39.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese