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

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Real Live Preacher

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dante Alighieri

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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