Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio

10.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

13.

Constant change is here to stay.

14.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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.

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

21.

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

Spander, Art

22.

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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

26.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

27.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

28.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

29.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

30.

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

Bailey, Pearl

31.

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

Jackson, Nelson

32.

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

33.

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

Dewar, Jeff

34.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

35.

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?

36.

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

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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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

40.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

41.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Confucius

44.

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