Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lee, Bruce

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Buffett, Warren

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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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 only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Heraclitus

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Lynn Hall