Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

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

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

10.

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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Riley, Pat

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

21.

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

23.

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

Pope, Alexander

25.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Paul, Jean

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Spander, Art

31.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

32.

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

Burke, Edmund

33.

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

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter