Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Paul, Jean

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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 most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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 can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

29.

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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

34.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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