Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dante Alighieri

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

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

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

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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 is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

11.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

13.

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

21.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

28.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

30.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

34.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Paz, Octavio

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

40.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.

46.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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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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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