Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kettering, Charles F.

Best Quotes about Change

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Walesa, Lech

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Riley, Pat

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Klee, Paul

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Tracy, Brian

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Virgil

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bible

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.