Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sontag, Susan

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

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

Hoffer, Eric

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

10.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

11.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

12.

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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

16.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Confucius

18.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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

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

Carol Burnett

28.

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

Murdock, Mike

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

34.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

36.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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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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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Butterworth, Eric