Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Socrates

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Klee, Paul

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Ruskin, John

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

Andy Warhol

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Harrison Ford

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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