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

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

Herford, Oliver

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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.

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

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Murdock, Mike

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

10.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

11.

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

Mcgovern, William

12.

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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Depree, Max

15.

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

Walesa, Lech

16.

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

19.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

20.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

21.

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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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

25.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Garfield, Charles A.

27.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

28.

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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

30.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

31.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

33.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

34.

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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Burke, Edmund

38.

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

Menander of Athens

39.

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.

40.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

41.

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

Brown, Les

42.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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