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

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

Rohn, Jim

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Proust, Marcel

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Buffett, Warren

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Virgil

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

12.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Andy Warhol

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

Spander, Art

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Bellin, Gita

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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