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

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

15.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

16.

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

Confucius

17.

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

Burke, Edmund

18.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

19.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

20.

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

Ruskin, John

21.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

22.

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

23.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

25.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

27.

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

Heraclitus

28.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

29.

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 I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

31.

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

32.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

34.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

35.

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.

36.

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

Klee, Paul

37.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

38.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

40.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

41.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

42.

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

Dewar, Jeff

43.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

44.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.