Motivational Quotes

Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Petworth, John

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

A Course In Miracles

10.

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

11.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

12.

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

Proust, Marcel

13.

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

Harrison Ford

14.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

15.

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

16.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

17.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

18.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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.

21.

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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

24.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

27.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

28.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

30.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

31.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

32.

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

Lynn Hall

33.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

34.

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

Angelou, Maya

35.

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

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

37.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

38.

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

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

Heraclitus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Nelson Mandela

44.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Constant change is here to stay.

47.

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.

48.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

49.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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