Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Udall, Mo

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

11.

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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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

35.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.