Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Felltham, Owen

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rohn, Jim

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Spander, Art

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

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

11.

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

Felltham, Owen

12.

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

Porter, Irene

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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

16.

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.

17.

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

Klee, Paul

18.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

19.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

20.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

24.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

25.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

26.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

27.

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

28.

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

Susan Rice

29.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

30.

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.

31.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

32.

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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

34.

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.

35.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

36.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

37.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

38.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Gerhart, Susan

41.

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

Bailey, Pearl

42.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

47.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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