Motivational Quotes

Change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Brown, Les

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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 world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Harrison Ford

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Andy Warhol

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bible

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

Herford, Oliver

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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