Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

Socrates

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Lynn Hall

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

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

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.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Heraclitus

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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

26.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Bailey, Pearl

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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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.

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

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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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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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