Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kearney

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Bacon, Francis

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Menander of Athens

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

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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

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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 change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Christina Baldwin

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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.