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

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

Virgil

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Kearney

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

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Porter, Irene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Hooker, Richard

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Heraclitus

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

George, David Lloyd

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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.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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