Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

The only people who like change are wet babies.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Burke, Edmund

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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

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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.

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Porter, Irene

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Hooker, Richard

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Heraclitus

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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 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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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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