Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Mohammed

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Naisbitt, John

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Paul, Jean

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Schoeder, Caroline