Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spander, Art

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Angelou, Maya

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas