Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

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

Sontag, Susan

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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.

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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 has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Menander of Athens

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Shelton, Richard

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.