Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

- Nelson Mandela

Best Quotes about Change

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

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Dean, Jimmy

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Petworth, John

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Bible

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

Mohammed

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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