Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ramsay Clark

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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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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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Spander, Art

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ruskin, John

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Carol Burnett

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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.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Depree, Max

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh