Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lynn Hall

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bailey, Pearl

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Klee, Paul

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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.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen