Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Proust, Marcel

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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?

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Pope, Alexander

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paul, Jean

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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.

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Burke, Edmund

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

37.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Harrison Ford

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Confucius