Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Hooker, Richard

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.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

26.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Davis, William B.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Andy Warhol

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