Motivational Quotes

Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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.

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

Heraclitus

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

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Gerhart, Susan

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

10.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

11.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Draper, John W.

13.

Constant change is here to stay.

14.

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

Shaw, P.K.

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

16.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

18.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

19.

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

Carol Burnett

20.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

21.

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

A Course In Miracles

22.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Tilden, Bill

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

29.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

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

31.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

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

33.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

34.

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

35.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

36.

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

Dante Alighieri

37.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

38.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

39.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

40.

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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

44.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

45.

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

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

47.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

48.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching