Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Garfield, Charles A.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Riley, Pat

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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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 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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence 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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Spander, Art

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.