Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

A Course In Miracles

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

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

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

11.

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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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

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

Spander, Art

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lynn Hall

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Herford, Oliver

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Paul, Jean

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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

33.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Andy Warhol

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Eliot, George

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Porter, Irene

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

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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.