Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

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

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

Porter, Irene

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Hooker, Richard

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Ward, William A.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Bible

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Buffett, Warren