Motivational Quotes

Change

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Ryan, Nolan

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Rohn, Jim

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Draper, John W.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

10.

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

Murdock, Mike

11.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

12.

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

Dean, Jimmy

13.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

14.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

15.

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

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

19.

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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

24.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

25.

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

Paz, Octavio

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

31.

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

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

Ramsay Clark

33.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Jackson, Nelson

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gerhart, Susan

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

47.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

48.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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