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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Kearney

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

Walesa, Lech

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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.

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

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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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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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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Bacon, Francis

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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