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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Klee, Paul

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

Ruskin, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Jackson, Nelson

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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

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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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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 things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Porter, Irene

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

Paul, Jean

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heraclitus

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah