Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

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.

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Shelton, Richard

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Spander, Art

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

Porter, Irene

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Churchill, Winston

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Bryant, William C.

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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Robbins, Anthony