Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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 living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

10.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

11.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

13.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Burke, Edmund

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

24.

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

Menander of Athens

25.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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?

28.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, 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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Angelou, Maya

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

35.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

36.

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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Petworth, John

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Andy Warhol

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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