Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Proust, Marcel

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

10.

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

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

12.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

13.

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Bellin, Gita

18.

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

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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.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Heraclitus

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Confucius

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

32.

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

33.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Ruskin, John