Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Ruskin, John

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Felltham, Owen

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Brown, Les

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

Carol Burnett

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Murdock, Mike

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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 true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Paul, Jean

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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