Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

10.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

18.

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

Spander, Art

19.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Klee, Paul

21.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

25.

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

Carol Burnett

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

27.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

30.

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

Jackson, Nelson

31.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

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 the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Drucker, Peter F.

37.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

40.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Waitley, Denis

45.

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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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

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