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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Tilden, Bill

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Heraclitus

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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

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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Lee, Bruce

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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 not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Paul, Jean

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Petworth, John

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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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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.

James Gordon

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Andy Warhol

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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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 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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham