Motivational Quotes

Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

- Mailer, Norman

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Confucius

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

19.

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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Proust, Marcel

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Harrison Ford

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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