Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bellin, Gita

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Confucius

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Udall, Mo

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Spencer, Herbert

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Virgil

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

Murdock, Mike

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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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

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens