Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Real Live Preacher

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Rogers, Will

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Naisbitt, John

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

10.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

12.

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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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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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Andy Warhol

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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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Heraclitus

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Petworth, John

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Bible

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.