Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Dewar, Jeff

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

10.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

11.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

12.

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

13.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

14.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

16.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

17.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

19.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

20.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

21.

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

22.

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

23.

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

Rohn, Jim

24.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

25.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

26.

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

27.

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

Udall, Mo

28.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

29.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

31.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

32.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

33.

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

Spander, Art

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

37.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

39.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

40.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Paul, Jean

43.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

44.

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

Bryant, William C.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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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.

49.

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

Waitley, Denis