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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

A Course In Miracles

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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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.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

32.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Virgil

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe