Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Glasgow, Ellen

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ruskin, John

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Bible

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

Felltham, Owen

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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 has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

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