Motivational Quotes

Change

One person's constant is another person's variable.

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Davis, William B.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Constant change is here to stay.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Draper, John W.

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Christina Baldwin

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.