Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Davis, William B.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Heraclitus

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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

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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

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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene