Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Petworth, John

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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?

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Socrates

10.

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

11.

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

16.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

17.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

18.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

19.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andy Warhol

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

25.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Mcgovern, William

27.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

30.

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

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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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 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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Draper, John W.

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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A rut is a grave with no ends.