Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

10.

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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Christina Baldwin

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Socrates

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

19.

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

Hooker, Richard

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

32.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Buffett, Warren

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Ward, William A.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Tilden, Bill