Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Kempis, Thomas

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

George, David Lloyd

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

10.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Ruskin, John

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

15.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Spander, Art

25.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

27.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Dewar, Jeff

30.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

31.

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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

33.

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

34.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Asimov, Isaac

42.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

43.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

49.

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

Mcgovern, William

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General