Motivational Quotes

Change

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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.

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

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

Heraclitus

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

19.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

20.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

24.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Murdock, Mike

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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.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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 need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

31.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

37.

Constant change is here to stay.

38.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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.