Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Best Quotes about Change

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Petworth, John

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

Virgil

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

Bible

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Andy Warhol

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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

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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

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.