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

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

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.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

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

Heraclitus

12.

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.

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

14.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

15.

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

16.

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

Felltham, Owen

17.

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

18.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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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

22.

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

25.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

26.

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

27.

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

Depree, Max

28.

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

Mcgovern, William

29.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

30.

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

Dewar, Jeff

31.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

32.

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

Dean, Jimmy

33.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

34.

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

Andy Warhol

35.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

36.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

40.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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.

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

Paul, Jean

44.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

45.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

46.

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

47.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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

49.

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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman