Motivational Quotes

Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

- Herodotus

Best Quotes about Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

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

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Kearney

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Rogers, Will

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Heraclitus

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

Murdock, Mike

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Bellin, Gita

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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Constant change is here to stay.