Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Churchill, Winston

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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?

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Bryant, William C.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Andy Warhol

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Ward, William A.

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Virgil

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin