Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Change

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bennett, Arnold

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Ruskin, John

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Sontag, Susan

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.