Motivational Quotes

Change

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

- Medawar, Sir Peter

Best Quotes about Change

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

Rogers, Will

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Socrates

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Riley, Pat

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Virgil

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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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

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

George, David Lloyd

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Andy Warhol

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Angelou, Maya

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Eliot, George

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Lynn Hall

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

Porter, Irene

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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