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

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Socrates

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Dewar, Jeff

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

10.

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

Paz, Octavio

11.

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

Porter, Irene

12.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

14.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

16.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

17.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

18.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

19.

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

Susan Rice

20.

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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Constant change is here to stay.

22.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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

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

Hooker, Richard

25.

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

26.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

27.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

28.

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

29.

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

Bryant, William C.

30.

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

31.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

32.

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

Walesa, Lech

33.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

34.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

35.

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

Heraclitus

36.

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

37.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

38.

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

Hoffer, Eric

39.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

40.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

43.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

44.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

45.

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