Motivational Quotes

Change

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about 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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Dante Alighieri

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Buffett, Warren

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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Heraclitus

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Mohammed

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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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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

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

28.

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

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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 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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Confucius

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Felltham, Owen

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Andy Warhol

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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