Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Sontag, Susan

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

10.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

11.

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

Virgil

12.

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

Hooker, Richard

13.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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.

15.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

17.

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

Naisbitt, John

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

20.

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

21.

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

A Course In Miracles

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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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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

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Porter, Irene

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

41.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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?

48.

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

49.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Drucker, Peter F.