Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Udall, Mo

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

Mohammed

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Rogers, Will

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

Confucius

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

Shaw, P.K.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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.

10.

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

Spander, Art

11.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

12.

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

17.

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

Ramsay Clark

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

26.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Eliot, George

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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

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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?

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau