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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Herford, Oliver

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Lynn Hall

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Carol Burnett

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Virgil

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George