Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

Harrison Ford

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

10.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

11.

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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

13.

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

Nelson Mandela

14.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

15.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

16.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

17.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

18.

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

Petworth, John

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

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

Herford, Oliver

24.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

25.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

26.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

29.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

31.

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

Christina Baldwin

32.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

33.

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.

34.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

35.

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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

37.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

38.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

41.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

A Course In Miracles

47.

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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio