Motivational Quotes

Change

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Ryan, Nolan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Draper, John W.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Virgil

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Angelou, Maya

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

43.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Davis, William B.

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

Ramsay Clark

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