Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Baudrillard, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

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?

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bible

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

10.

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

13.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

15.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

16.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

17.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

18.

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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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

20.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

28.

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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

31.

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

Ramsay Clark

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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

33.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Bennett, Arnold

39.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

43.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Davis, William B.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American