Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Udall, Mo

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Spander, Art

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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.

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

Eliot, George

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Socrates

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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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