Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Heraclitus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Bellin, Gita

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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Depree, Max

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Felltham, Owen

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Udall, Mo

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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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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

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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

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.