Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Confucius

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

Depree, Max

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

Menander of Athens

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Buffett, Warren

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Spander, Art

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Naisbitt, John

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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