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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Naisbitt, John

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Petworth, John

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Tracy, Brian

11.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

12.

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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

26.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

39.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

40.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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