Motivational Quotes

Change

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Harrison Ford

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

Andy Warhol

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Heraclitus

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pope, Alexander

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

George, David Lloyd

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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

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas