Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Branden, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ruskin, John

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Waitley, Denis

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

10.

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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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

15.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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.

17.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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.

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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.

27.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Petworth, John

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

43.

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.