Motivational Quotes

Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Proust, Marcel

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

A Course In Miracles

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heraclitus

10.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

11.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

12.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

17.

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

18.

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

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

20.

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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

24.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

25.

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

Andy Warhol

26.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

27.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

28.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

30.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

31.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

32.

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

33.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Bennett, Arnold

41.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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