Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

11.

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

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Jackson, Jesse

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Felltham, Owen

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Paul, Jean

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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.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Carol Burnett

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

40.

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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.