Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Mohammed

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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

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Petworth, John

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Virgil

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Heraclitus

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Heraclitus

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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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

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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?

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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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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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