Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

11.

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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

22.

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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Kearney

30.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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?

32.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

38.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Heraclitus

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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