Motivational Quotes

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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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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

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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.

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

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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

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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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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

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.