Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Virgil

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

10.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

11.

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

16.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

17.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

18.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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

23.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

24.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

25.

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

Eliot, George

26.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

27.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

28.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

29.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

30.

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

Rogers, Will

31.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

32.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

37.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Depree, Max

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

40.

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.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Harrison Ford

44.

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

Klee, Paul

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol