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

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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?

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

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Lynn Hall

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

Mohammed

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Proust, Marcel

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Spander, Art

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Eliot, George

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene