Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

- Proverb, Portuguese

Best Quotes about Change

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Paz, Octavio

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Bacon, Francis

The only people who like change are wet babies.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

11.

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

12.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

13.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

14.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

15.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

17.

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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

19.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

20.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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

22.

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

23.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

24.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

25.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

26.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

30.

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

Udall, Mo

31.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

32.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

33.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Garfield, Charles A.

35.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.