Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

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

Robbins, Anthony

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Real Live Preacher

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Menander of Athens

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Shelton, Richard

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Depree, Max

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody