Motivational Quotes

Change

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

- Butterworth, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

10.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

13.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

14.

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

20.

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

Confucius

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

28.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

A Course In Miracles

30.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

37.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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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

40.

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

Virgil

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

44.

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.

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Andy Warhol

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John