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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Churchill, Winston

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Paul, Jean

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Constant change is here to stay.

21.

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

Burke, Edmund

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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.

28.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

34.

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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Susan Rice

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens