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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

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

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Susan Rice

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Harrison Ford

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Felltham, Owen

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Petworth, John

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

Jackson, Nelson

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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