Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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

Shelton, Richard

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Ruskin, John

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

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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

Naisbitt, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Brown, Les

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Bible

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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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.