Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Paul, Jean

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Andy Warhol

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Waitley, Denis

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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

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

Garfield, Charles A.