Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Peters, Thomas J.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Mohammed

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

10.

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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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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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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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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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Tilden, Bill

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Spander, Art

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bible

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Heraclitus

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Porter, Irene

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.