Motivational Quotes

Change

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Socrates

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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 happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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

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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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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney