Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Burke, Edmund

10.

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

11.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

18.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

25.

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?

26.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

29.

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

31.

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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Carol Burnett

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ruskin, John

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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan