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

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Spencer, Herbert

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

10.

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

11.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

12.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Shelton, Richard

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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

21.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

22.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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.

27.

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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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?

36.

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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bible

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Petworth, John

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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.

48.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

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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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