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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

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

Porter, Irene

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Klee, Paul

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Rogers, Will

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

Spander, Art

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

Nelson Mandela

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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 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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

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

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