Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Porter, Irene

Best Quotes about Change

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Bible

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Kearney

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

Paz, Octavio

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

10.

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

11.

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

Spander, Art

12.

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

Lynn Hall

13.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

14.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

15.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

16.

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

17.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

18.

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

A Course In Miracles

19.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

20.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

22.

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

23.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

24.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

25.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

27.

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

Porter, Irene

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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

29.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

30.

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.

31.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

32.

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

33.

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

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

36.

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

Waitley, Denis

37.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

40.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

41.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

44.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

45.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

46.

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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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.

49.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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