Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

- D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Best Quotes about Change

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Petworth, John

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

Menander of Athens

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

Waitley, Denis

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

10.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Virgil

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

Hooker, Richard

28.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

32.

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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Depree, Max

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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.

Baldwin, James