Motivational Quotes

Change

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Porter, Irene

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Gerhart, Susan

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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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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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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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Spander, Art

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Eliot, George

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

Paul, Jean

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Ruskin, John

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Paz, Octavio

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Confucius

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin