Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Virgil

10.

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

11.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

12.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

16.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

18.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

19.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

20.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

21.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Murdock, Mike

25.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

27.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

28.

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

Dean, Jimmy

29.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

30.

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

Butterworth, Eric

31.

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

Porter, Irene

32.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Klee, Paul

34.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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.

37.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

40.

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

Rogers, Will

41.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

42.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

45.

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

46.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Harrison Ford

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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.