Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mohammed

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

10.

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

Rogers, Will

11.

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.

12.

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

Heraclitus

13.

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

Heraclitus

14.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

18.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

19.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

21.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

24.

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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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?

28.

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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

Spander, Art

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

32.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

39.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.

45.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Hooker, Richard