Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

Menander of Athens

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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

14.

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

15.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

16.

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

Bryant, William C.

17.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

18.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

20.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

21.

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

22.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

23.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Riley, Pat

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

27.

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

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

34.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

35.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Felltham, Owen

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

38.

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

Porter, Irene

39.

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

40.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Ruskin, John

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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

50.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe