Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Dean, Jimmy

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Angelou, Maya

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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

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

Kearney

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

20.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

21.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

36.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kettering, Charles F.