Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Machiavelli, Niccolo

Best Quotes about Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

10.

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

11.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Paz, Octavio

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Constant change is here to stay.

20.

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

Heraclitus

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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.

30.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Hoffer, Eric

33.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

40.

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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kearney

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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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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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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

47.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

50.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George