Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Davis, William B.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

10.

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

Harrison Ford

11.

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

12.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

13.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

15.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Eliot, George

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

25.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

28.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

29.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

30.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Klee, Paul

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

Real Live Preacher

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

48.

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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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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline