Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Dante Alighieri

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

23.

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

Brown, Les

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Paul, Jean

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

32.

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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

42.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.