Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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.

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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Murdock, Mike

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Socrates

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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