Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Draper, John W.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Socrates

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

10.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

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.

12.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

13.

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

Spander, Art

14.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Buffett, Warren

16.

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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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

18.

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

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

25.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

26.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

27.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

28.

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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

30.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

32.

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.

33.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

34.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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 only people who like change are wet babies.

38.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

39.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

40.

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

41.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

42.

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

Naisbitt, John

43.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Mohammed

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.