Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Ruskin, John

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Spander, Art

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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

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

Udall, Mo

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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 nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Waitley, Denis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

32.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mcgovern, William

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

38.

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.