Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Menander of Athens

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Paul, Jean

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Carol Burnett

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Petworth, John

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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.

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

George, David Lloyd

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bible

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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