Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Menander of Athens

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

Watts, Alan W.

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.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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.

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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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hooker, Richard

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Andy Warhol

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Angelou, Maya

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Shelton, Richard

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.