Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Almanac, Mary S.

Best Quotes about Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Tracy, Brian

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Socrates

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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