Motivational Quotes

Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

- Ruskin, John

Best Quotes about Change

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Andy Warhol

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Paul, Jean

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

Naisbitt, John

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Virgil

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Mohammed

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Davis, William B.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Confucius

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Gerhart, Susan

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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