Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Change

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Confucius

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

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

Spander, Art

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bryant, William C.

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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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?

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Socrates

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Eliot, George

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Walesa, Lech

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Heraclitus

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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

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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

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

Petworth, John

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

Ruskin, John

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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