Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shelton, Richard

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Pickens, T. Boone

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Davis, William B.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Tracy, Brian

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

37.

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?

38.

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Heraclitus

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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 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.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn