Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Dewar, Jeff

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Tilden, Bill

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

10.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

12.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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.

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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

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Naisbitt, John

22.

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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Real Live Preacher

35.

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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bible

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Sinetar, Marsha