Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Mohammed

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Ramsay Clark

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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

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

Depree, Max

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Petworth, John

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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