Motivational Quotes

Change

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

- Krutch, Joseph Wood

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

18.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

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

Porter, Irene

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Menander of Athens

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Proust, Marcel

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Churchill, Winston

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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