Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Mohammed

10.

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

11.

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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

14.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

18.

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Klee, Paul

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Heraclitus

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

39.

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?

40.

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

Petworth, John

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Bryant, William C.

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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

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

Confucius