Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bacon, Francis

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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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

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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 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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sontag, Susan

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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

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Shelton, Richard

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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.

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

Heraclitus

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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