Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Spander, Art

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

10.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

11.

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

Shaw, P.K.

12.

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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

17.

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

18.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

19.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

20.

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

Depree, Max

22.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ruskin, John

24.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

26.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

30.

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

George, David Lloyd

31.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

32.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

33.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

34.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

35.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Angelou, Maya

42.

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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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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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

45.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Porter, Irene

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Buffett, Warren

49.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

50.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh