Motivational Quotes

Change

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

George, David Lloyd

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

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

10.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

13.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

14.

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

Klee, Paul

15.

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

Davis, William B.

16.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

17.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

18.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

19.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

20.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

26.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

27.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

28.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

29.

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

Shaw, P.K.

30.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

31.

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

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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

33.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

35.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

41.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Confucius

49.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus