Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spander, Art

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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.

11.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

12.

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

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

Porter, Irene

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Glasgow, Ellen

18.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

19.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

20.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

21.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Waitley, Denis

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

25.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

28.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

29.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

35.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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.

41.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Socrates

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

47.

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

Murdock, Mike

48.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat