Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

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.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Burke, Edmund

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Mohammed

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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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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

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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

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Confucius

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Jackson, Nelson

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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