Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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

Lynn Hall

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

10.

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Real Live Preacher

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

18.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

19.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Bailey, Pearl

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Bible

30.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Socrates

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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

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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 woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Naisbitt, John

43.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

44.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heraclitus

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita