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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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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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

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Herford, Oliver

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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 thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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 has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Udall, Mo

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

35.

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

George, David Lloyd

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Paul, Jean

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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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Davis, William B.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney