Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Eliot, George

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

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.

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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Davis, William B.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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