Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spencer, Herbert

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Buffett, Warren

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Porter, Irene

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh