Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Kearney

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Heraclitus

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.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Waitley, Denis

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Mcgovern, William

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

22.

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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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Confucius

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

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

Heraclitus

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Burke, Edmund

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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?

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Naisbitt, John

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von