Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Ward, William A.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Heraclitus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Paz, Octavio

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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

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

Ruskin, John

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Einstein, Albert

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

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

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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