Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Udall, Mo

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.

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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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 time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Heraclitus

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Depree, Max

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Ramsay Clark