Motivational Quotes

Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Change

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Robbins, Anthony

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Jackson, Jesse

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Petworth, John

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Shelton, Richard

21.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

28.

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

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

Andy Warhol

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Susan Rice

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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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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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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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