Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Klee, Paul

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Paz, Octavio

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

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?

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

10.

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.

11.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

12.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

16.

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.

17.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

18.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

19.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

20.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

22.

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

23.

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

Ramsay Clark

24.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

25.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Udall, Mo

27.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

28.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

29.

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

Porter, Irene

30.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

32.

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

33.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

34.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

35.

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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

37.

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

38.

Constant change is here to stay.

39.

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

Mohammed

40.

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

Angelou, Maya

41.

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

42.

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

Jackson, Nelson

43.

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

44.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

49.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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