Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Heraclitus

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rogers, Will

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

Mohammed

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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.

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

Bible

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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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

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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

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Susan Rice

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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

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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 not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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?