Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

10.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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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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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

16.

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

Jackson, Nelson

17.

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

Angelou, Maya

18.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

19.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

20.

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

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

22.

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

Confucius

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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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

29.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

30.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

31.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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 changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Drucker, Peter F.

40.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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.