Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Burke, Edmund

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Shaw, P.K.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy