Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Freeman, James Dillet

10.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

11.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

15.

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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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

17.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

20.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

21.

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

Gerhart, Susan

22.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

23.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

24.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

25.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Shelton, Richard

29.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

30.

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

Murdock, Mike

31.

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

32.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

34.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

35.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

36.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

39.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

41.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

42.

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