Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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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 true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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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

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

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

Paz, Octavio