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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bellin, Gita

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

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Kabbalah

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

Heraclitus

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Felltham, Owen

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Virgil

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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.

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von