Motivational Quotes

Change

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Best Quotes about Change

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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.

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

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Jackson, Jesse

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Confucius

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

Drucker, Peter F.