Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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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

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

Paul, Jean

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Petworth, John

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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 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

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.