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

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

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Brown, Les

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Petworth, John

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Heraclitus

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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 isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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

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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