Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Ward, William A.

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Murdock, Mike

10.

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

Socrates

11.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

14.

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

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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

17.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

18.

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

19.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Shaw, P.K.

23.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

24.

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

Andy Warhol

25.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

28.

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

Herford, Oliver

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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

31.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

George, David Lloyd

36.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Robbins, Anthony

38.

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

39.

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

40.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hooker, Richard

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

45.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

46.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

48.

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

49.

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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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