Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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.

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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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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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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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 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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

32.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Bible

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

Murdock, Mike

39.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Virgil

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

43.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Ruskin, John

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