Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hooker, Richard

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Virgil

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Davis, William B.

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

Ruskin, John

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Kempis, 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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von