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

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Socrates

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Heraclitus

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

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bryant, William C.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Brown, Les

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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