Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Heraclitus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Constant change is here to stay.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

10.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Menander of Athens

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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

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

19.

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?

20.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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

Murdock, Mike

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

24.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Virgil

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Felltham, Owen

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

48.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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