Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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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.

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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.

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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Klee, Paul

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Rogers, Will

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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.

32.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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

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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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