Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Dante Alighieri

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Brown, Les

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

10.

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

11.

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

Porter, Irene

12.

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

Tracy, Brian

13.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

16.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

17.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

18.

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

19.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

20.

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

21.

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

Carol Burnett

22.

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

Udall, Mo

23.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

25.

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

26.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

27.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

28.

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

Naisbitt, John

29.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

30.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Spander, Art

40.

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

41.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

42.

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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

44.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

45.

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

Angelou, Maya

46.

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

Depree, Max

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

50.

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