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

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

Felltham, Owen

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

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

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

Porter, Irene

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

10.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Eliot, George

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

16.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

18.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Schoeder, Caroline

21.

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?

22.

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

27.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

28.

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

Bailey, Pearl

29.

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

30.

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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Real Live Preacher

40.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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