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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Virgil

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

10.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

11.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

14.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Porter, Irene

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

Heraclitus

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Shaw, P.K.

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

26.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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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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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

36.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American