Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Kearney

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Dante Alighieri

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

George, David Lloyd

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

31.

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

Klee, Paul

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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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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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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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.