Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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

Proust, Marcel

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Felltham, Owen

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Kearney

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

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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