Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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

Bible

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

Menander of Athens

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

12.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Proust, Marcel

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.