Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dante Alighieri

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

George, David Lloyd

11.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

12.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

13.

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

14.

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

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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

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

Davis, William B.

18.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

24.

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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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

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

Paul, Jean

27.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

30.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

31.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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.

42.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn