Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Riley, Pat

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Bennett, Arnold

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Constant change is here to stay.

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Davis, William B.

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

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

Virgil

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Eliot, George

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.