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

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

Lynn Hall

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Garfield, Charles A.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

13.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

42.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Christina Baldwin

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens