Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Bible

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

11.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Menander of Athens

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Eliot, George

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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.

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Porter, Irene

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

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

Spander, Art

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Naisbitt, John

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Butterworth, Eric

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.