Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Branden, Nathaniel

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Menander of Athens

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

Eliot, George

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Socrates

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

18.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

19.

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

Confucius

20.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

21.

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

Andy Warhol

22.

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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

25.

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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

31.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

45.

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

Dante Alighieri

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Mohammed