Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Lynn Hall

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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.

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Bible

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Ruskin, John

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Eliot, George

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

Brown, Les

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Spander, Art

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Mohammed

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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