Motivational Quotes

Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Kearney

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

15.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Draper, John W.

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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

18.

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

Dante Alighieri

19.

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

Rogers, Will

20.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

21.

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

Real Live Preacher

24.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

25.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Carol Burnett

27.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

28.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

30.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

31.

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

Buffett, Warren

32.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

33.

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

Sontag, Susan

34.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Confucius

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Ruskin, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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.

43.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

44.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

45.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.