Motivational Quotes

Change

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Andy Warhol

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Depree, Max

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heraclitus

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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.

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Paul, Jean

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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