Motivational Quotes

Change

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

- Lynn Hall

Best Quotes about Change

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Glasgow, Ellen

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Virgil

10.

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

Proust, Marcel

11.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Mohammed

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

Angelou, Maya

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kearney

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

Davis, William B.

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

30.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

31.

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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

33.

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.

34.

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

Heraclitus

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Andy Warhol

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Real Live Preacher

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston