Motivational Quotes

Change

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

- Bastos, Augusto Roa

Best Quotes about Change

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

Constant change is here to stay.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Paz, Octavio

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Lynn Hall

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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

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Eliot, George

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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