Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Nelson Mandela

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Lynn Hall

10.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

11.

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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

14.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Naisbitt, John

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

21.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

28.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

29.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

30.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Felltham, Owen

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bellin, Gita

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Tilden, Bill

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.