Motivational Quotes

Change

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

- Mailer, Norman

Best Quotes about Change

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Bacon, Francis

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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?

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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.

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Porter, Irene

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese