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

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Heraclitus

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Paz, Octavio

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

10.

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

Butterworth, Eric

11.

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

Andy Warhol

12.

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

13.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

15.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

39.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Spander, Art

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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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De