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

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

Kearney

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

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Virgil

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

30.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

34.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

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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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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

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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