Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Sontag, Susan

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

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

11.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

12.

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

13.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

14.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

15.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Confucius

18.

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

19.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

28.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

34.

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

35.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Heraclitus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Churchill, Winston

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

44.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

45.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.