Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

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

Harrison Ford

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Brown, Les

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

24.

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

Proust, Marcel

25.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Shaw, P.K.

31.

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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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

33.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

44.

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

Petworth, John

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

Porter, Irene

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Menander of Athens