Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Waitley, Denis

Constant change is here to stay.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

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

Draper, John W.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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

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

Virgil

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Susan Rice

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Andy Warhol

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

Proust, Marcel

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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