Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paul, Jean

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Petworth, John

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

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

10.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

11.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

12.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

13.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

14.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

15.

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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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.

25.

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Confucius

28.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

29.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

30.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

32.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

34.

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

Dean, Jimmy

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.

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

38.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

39.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

40.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

41.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

44.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

45.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

46.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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