Motivational Quotes

Change

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Heraclitus

11.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

22.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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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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.

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

Proust, Marcel

30.

Constant change is here to stay.

31.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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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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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 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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Ward, William A.

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

40.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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