Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Bennett, Arnold

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Waitley, Denis

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Depree, Max

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Ruskin, John

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Susan Rice

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

Paul, Jean

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Churchill, Winston