Motivational Quotes

Change

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

10.

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

11.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

12.

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

13.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Klee, Paul

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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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 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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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Spencer, Herbert

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

31.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Davis, William B.

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Lynn Hall

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

Waitley, Denis

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.