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

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

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

24.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Real Live Preacher

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

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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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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

White, Lynn

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Riley, Pat

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo