Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

10.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

11.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

12.

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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Porter, Irene

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Confucius

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

31.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

32.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carol Burnett

40.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di