Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Porter, Irene

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

10.

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

Mohammed

11.

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

12.

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

Christina Baldwin

13.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

14.

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

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

18.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

19.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

20.

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

21.

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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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.

23.

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

Bible

25.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

26.

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

Ruskin, John

27.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

28.

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

29.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

30.

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

31.

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

32.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

33.

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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

35.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

37.

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

38.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

39.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

40.

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

Lynn Hall

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.