Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Virgil

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

26.

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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hooker, Richard

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Christina Baldwin

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Klee, Paul

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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 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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.