Motivational Quotes

Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Davis, William B.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

Bible

10.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

11.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

13.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

14.

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

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

Almanac, Mary S.

16.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

17.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Depree, Max

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

Burke, Edmund

25.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Churchill, Winston

30.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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

32.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Confucius

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Socrates

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Constant change is here to stay.

40.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Ramsay Clark

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

45.

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

Udall, Mo

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Shelton, Richard

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Dewar, Jeff

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.