Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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

Klee, Paul

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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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

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Socrates

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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