Motivational Quotes

Change

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Butterworth, Eric

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Felltham, Owen

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Bible

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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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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

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

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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 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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

33.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Hooker, Richard

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Virgil

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.