Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

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

Klee, Paul

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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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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Davis, William B.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Bible

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy