Motivational Quotes

Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

Baudrillard, Jean

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Paul, Jean

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Socrates

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Virgil

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

20.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Christina Baldwin

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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

41.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

42.

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

Harrison Ford

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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