Motivational Quotes

Change

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bailey, Pearl

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Confucius

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Shelton, Richard

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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 entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Davis, William B.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Paul, Jean

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

Andy Warhol

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.