Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

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

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Walesa, Lech

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Depree, Max

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Andy Warhol

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

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Menander of Athens

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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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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 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 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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Tilden, Bill

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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