Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Porter, Irene

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Hoffer, Eric

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Ramsay Clark

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

10.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

11.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

12.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

16.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

17.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

18.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

21.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

22.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

25.

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

26.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

27.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

28.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

29.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

30.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

31.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

32.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Confucius

35.

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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

39.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

40.

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

Bible

41.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

44.

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

45.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Ruskin, John

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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