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

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

Ruskin, John

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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.

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

Proust, Marcel

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

11.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

13.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Ramsay Clark

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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.

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Naisbitt, John

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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

25.

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

Brown, Les

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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 the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

32.

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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

42.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.