Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

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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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Rohn, Jim

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lynn Hall

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Porter, Irene

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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 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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Christina Baldwin

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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's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Petworth, John

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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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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.