Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Virgil

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ruskin, John

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Heraclitus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Klee, Paul

33.

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

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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Naisbitt, John

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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.