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

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Glasgow, Ellen

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Ramsay Clark

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

13.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

15.

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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

37.

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

38.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Burke, Edmund