Motivational Quotes

Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

A Course In Miracles

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.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Gilcrest, Peter

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

10.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

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

12.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

14.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

16.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

17.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

18.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

19.

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

Bellin, Gita

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Ruskin, John

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

24.

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

Andy Warhol

25.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

26.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

30.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

31.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

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

34.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

35.

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

Bennett, Arnold

36.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

38.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spencer, Herbert

40.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

41.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

42.

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

Tilden, Bill

43.

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

Buffett, Warren

44.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

46.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Davis, William B.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

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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.