Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spander, Art

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Porter, Irene

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

Lynn Hall

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Drucker, Peter F.