Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Nelson Mandela

10.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

Spander, Art

12.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

13.

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

Murdock, Mike

14.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

15.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

17.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

18.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

19.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

20.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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.

24.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

25.

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.

26.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

27.

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

28.

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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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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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

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

Bible

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Hooker, Richard