Motivational Quotes

Change

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

11.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

12.

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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Paul, Jean

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

28.

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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

32.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Naisbitt, John

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus