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

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.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Spencer, Herbert

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

10.

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

Virgil

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

12.

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

Shelton, Richard

13.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Hooker, Richard

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

31.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

32.

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

33.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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 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.

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

Susan Rice

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

39.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Paz, Octavio

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

43.

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

Buffett, Warren

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Menander of Athens

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony