Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Socrates

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Depree, Max

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Davis, William B.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Virgil

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.