Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Confucius

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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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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.