Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Rohn, Jim

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Petworth, John

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Draper, John W.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Spander, Art

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

Naisbitt, John

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

George, David Lloyd

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Virgil

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Change alone is unchanging.