Motivational Quotes

Change

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Heraclitus

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Burke, Edmund

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Depree, Max

10.

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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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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