Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Proust, Marcel

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Mcgovern, William

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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 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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Carol Burnett

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.