Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Brown, Les

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

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Felltham, Owen

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.

Otto, Herbert A.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Constant change is here to stay.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Andy Warhol

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Spander, Art

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob