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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Porter, Irene

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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.

13.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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.

15.

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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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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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

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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.

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

39.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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 customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin