Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Heraclitus

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Porter, Irene

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Brown, Les

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Eliot, George

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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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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 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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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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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

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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