Motivational Quotes

Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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?

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Paul, Jean

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Carol Burnett

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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.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bryant, William C.

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Heraclitus

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Udall, Mo

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin