Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

Angelou, Maya

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Harrison Ford

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

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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

George, David Lloyd

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Spander, Art

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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.

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Udall, Mo

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Andy Warhol

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.