Motivational Quotes

Change

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

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

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Murdock, Mike

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.

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Klee, Paul

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Mohammed

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Naisbitt, John