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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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

10.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

11.

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

12.

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

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

14.

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

Mohammed

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

16.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

17.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

19.

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

20.

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

Spencer, Herbert

21.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Petworth, John

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Burke, Edmund

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

29.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

30.

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

31.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Heraclitus

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

34.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

38.

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

Rohn, Jim

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

40.

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

Proust, Marcel

42.

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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

45.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

46.

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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

49.

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?

50.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel