Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Socrates

Best Quotes about Change

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Lynn Hall

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Waitley, Denis

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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?

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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.

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Eliot, George

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Felltham, Owen

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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