Motivational Quotes

Change

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Shelton, Richard

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

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Bible

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Porter, Irene

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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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, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Buffett, Warren

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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