Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

A Course In Miracles

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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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 yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Spander, Art

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Kabbalah

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Mohammed

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon