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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Eliot, George

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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

Spander, Art

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Churchill, Winston

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

47.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George