Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Change

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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

Hooker, Richard

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Virgil

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

Spander, Art