Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

13.

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

George, David Lloyd

14.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

15.

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

Lynn Hall

16.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

17.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

Butterworth, Eric

19.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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

21.

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

Udall, Mo

22.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

23.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

24.

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

25.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

26.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

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

Harrison Ford

28.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

31.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

32.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

33.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

34.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

35.

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

36.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

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

Heraclitus

38.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

39.

Everything changes but change.