Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paul, Jean

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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.

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

Proust, Marcel

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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 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.

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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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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Spander, Art

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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 is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Bible

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von