Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Hooker, Richard

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Riley, Pat

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney