Motivational Quotes

Change

In pain is a new time born.

- Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Best Quotes about Change

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Naisbitt, John

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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Eliot, George

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

George, David Lloyd

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Heraclitus

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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 most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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 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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.