Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

10.

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

11.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

12.

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

13.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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.

15.

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

16.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

18.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

19.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

20.

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

21.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

22.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

23.

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

Robbins, Anthony

24.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

25.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

26.

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

27.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

28.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

30.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

31.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

34.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Eliot, George

37.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

38.

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

40.

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

44.

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

Davis, William B.

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Bailey, Pearl

49.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus