Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Nelson Mandela

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Virgil

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.