Motivational Quotes

Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

- Freeman, James Dillet

Best Quotes about Change

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

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Lynn Hall

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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.

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

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 only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Tracy, Brian

10.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Heraclitus

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Waitley, Denis

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Depree, Max

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Proust, Marcel

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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There is nothing permanent except change.