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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Felltham, Owen

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Virgil

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

25.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Petworth, John

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Lynn Hall

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

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

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Herford, Oliver