Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Burke, Edmund

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Heraclitus

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

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

Shelton, Richard

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Bible

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

Mohammed

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Dickens, Charles

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Confucius

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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