Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Kempis, Thomas

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Confucius

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Hooker, Richard

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

18.

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

Naisbitt, John

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Churchill, Winston

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

31.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.