Motivational Quotes

Change

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Change

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Heraclitus

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

Spencer, Herbert

11.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Virgil

14.

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

Mcgovern, William

15.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Spander, Art

29.

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

Kearney

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

31.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

35.

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

Draper, John W.

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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