Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mohammed

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

Bible

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

12.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Andy Warhol

14.

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

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

Shelton, Richard

16.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Hooker, Richard

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

22.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

23.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

24.

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

25.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

27.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

30.

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

31.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

32.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

33.

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

35.

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

Virgil

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

37.

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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

39.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

40.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

41.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Porter, Irene

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

Walesa, Lech

44.

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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

48.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rohn, Jim

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy