Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Mohammed

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

Mcgovern, William

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

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Andy Warhol

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Proust, Marcel

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Porter, Irene

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Real Live Preacher

35.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

42.

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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

44.

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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara