Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

10.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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

12.

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

Shelton, Richard

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

15.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Depree, Max

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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.

20.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Almanac, Mary S.

24.

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Christina Baldwin

27.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Angelou, Maya

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

30.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

31.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Ruskin, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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