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

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.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Walesa, Lech

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

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Butterworth, Eric

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Klee, Paul

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

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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

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Porter, Irene

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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