Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

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.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Porter, Irene

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

Christina Baldwin

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Buffett, Warren

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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

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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?

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Proust, Marcel

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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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

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Shelton, Richard

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon