Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Shaw, P.K.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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I Ching

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Mohammed

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Angelou, Maya

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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

Andy Warhol

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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