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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Spencer, Herbert

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

12.

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

Petworth, John

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

22.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Brown, Les

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hooker, Richard

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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 is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Paul, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Socrates

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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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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.