Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Naisbitt, John

10.

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

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

14.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

15.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

16.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

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

18.

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

19.

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

20.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

21.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

22.

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

Buffett, Warren

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

24.

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

Paul, Jean

25.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

26.

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

Dean, Jimmy

27.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

28.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

29.

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

30.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

31.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

34.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

41.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

43.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

44.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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