Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

Udall, Mo

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Spander, Art

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Menander of Athens

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

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Porter, Irene

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Pope, Alexander