Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Kearney

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

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

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.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Confucius

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Brown, Les

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Riley, Pat

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shelton, Richard

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Heraclitus