Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Draper, John W.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

17.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bible

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Felltham, Owen

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lynn Hall

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney