Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Waitley, Denis

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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

Christina Baldwin

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Susan Rice

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

28.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Angelou, Maya

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

34.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Bible

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Spander, Art

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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 changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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 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