Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

10.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

11.

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

12.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Eliot, George

30.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

33.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.