Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about 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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peters, Thomas 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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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Naisbitt, John

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Carol Burnett

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

Tilden, Bill

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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, 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 need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.