Motivational Quotes

Change

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

Andy Warhol

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

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buffett, Warren

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Herford, Oliver

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von