Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Eliot, George

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Confucius

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Mohammed

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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

11.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Angelou, Maya

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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

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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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