Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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.

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

Lee, Bruce

10.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

11.

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

12.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

15.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

16.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

17.

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

Burke, Edmund

18.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

19.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

20.

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.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

21.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

22.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

23.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

24.

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

Klee, Paul

25.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Confucius

27.

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

28.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

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

Harrison Ford

31.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

32.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

33.

Constant change is here to stay.

34.

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?

35.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

36.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

37.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

38.

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

39.

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

Mohammed

40.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

41.

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

Riley, Pat

42.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

43.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

44.

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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

46.

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

Ramsay Clark

47.

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

Real Live Preacher

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy