Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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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 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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Ruskin, John

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Menander of Athens

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Heraclitus

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Carol Burnett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles