Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Nelson Mandela

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

10.

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

Draper, John W.

11.

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

12.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

13.

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

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

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

17.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

18.

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

19.

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

Riley, Pat

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

24.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

28.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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.

31.

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

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

34.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

35.

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

40.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Ruskin, John

45.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

46.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Real Live Preacher

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

49.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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