Motivational Quotes

Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Heraclitus

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?

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

Proust, Marcel

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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 world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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.

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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 an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Bible

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Lynn Hall

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

Andy Warhol

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya