Motivational Quotes

Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

10.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Lynn Hall

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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

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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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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Menander of Athens

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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?

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh