Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Dewar, Jeff

10.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

11.

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.

12.

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

Rogers, Will

13.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

14.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

15.

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

Andy Warhol

16.

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

17.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

18.

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

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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.

20.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

23.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

24.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

28.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

29.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

30.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

31.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

32.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

33.

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

34.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

35.

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

36.

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

Hoffer, Eric

37.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

38.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

39.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

40.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

41.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

42.

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

Klee, Paul

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

Ruskin, John

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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

45.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

46.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh