Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Ruskin, John

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

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Shelton, Richard

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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.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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.

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Sontag, Susan

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Klee, Paul

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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