Motivational Quotes

Change

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

- Rosenberg, Harold

Best Quotes about Change

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

17.

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

18.

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

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Porter, Irene

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Drucker, Peter F.

27.

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.

28.

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

Paul, Jean

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

40.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Virgil

45.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Paz, Octavio

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus