Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

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?

10.

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

11.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Proust, Marcel

18.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

19.

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

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

21.

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

Bible

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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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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.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

25.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

30.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

33.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

34.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

41.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

42.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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.