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

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

Bible

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gerhart, Susan

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Dante Alighieri

10.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

15.

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

16.

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

Spencer, Herbert

17.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

18.

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

Bellin, Gita

19.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

20.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

21.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

22.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.

24.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

25.

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

Paul, Jean

26.

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

Butterworth, Eric

27.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

28.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

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

Socrates

31.

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

32.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

33.

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

Proust, Marcel

34.

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

Tilden, Bill

35.

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.

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

38.

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

Buffett, Warren

39.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

40.

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

41.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

43.

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

44.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

46.

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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

49.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell