Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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

Socrates

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

13.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Tilden, Bill

17.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

18.

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

Spander, Art

19.

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

Pope, Alexander

20.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

21.

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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

24.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

25.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

31.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

32.

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

Petworth, John

33.

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

34.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

39.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

40.

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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Virgil

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.