Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Change

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Mohammed

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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

11.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

12.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

13.

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

Bible

14.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

16.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Eliot, George

20.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Gerhart, Susan

24.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

35.

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

36.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

38.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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To change and change for the better are two different things