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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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 is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Depree, Max

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

Bennett, Arnold

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.