Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

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?

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Confucius

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

Klee, Paul

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

Porter, Irene

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Harrison Ford

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean