Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Walesa, Lech

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Heraclitus

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Virgil

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Proust, Marcel

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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.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?