Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Andy Warhol

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mohammed

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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

11.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Herford, Oliver

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Nelson Mandela

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

Bible

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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