Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Susan Rice

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Spander, Art

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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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Eliot, George

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sontag, Susan

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Virgil

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven