Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mcgovern, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ward, William A.

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

Socrates

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

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Virgil

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

10.

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

11.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

12.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

13.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Depree, Max

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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.

28.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Andy Warhol

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di