Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mcgovern, William

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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.

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

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Glasgow, Ellen

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

11.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

12.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

13.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

14.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

15.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

16.

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

Spander, Art

17.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

19.

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

Kearney

20.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

22.

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

Christina Baldwin

23.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

24.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

25.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

26.

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

28.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

29.

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

Draper, John W.

30.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

31.

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

Gerhart, Susan

32.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

33.

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

34.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

35.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

40.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

41.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

44.

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

Shelton, Richard

45.

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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

50.

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