Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Watts, Alan W.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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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

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

Dante Alighieri

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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.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Socrates

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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