Motivational Quotes

Change

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

- Sikes, Rex Steven

Best Quotes about Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Sontag, Susan

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Felltham, Owen

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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.

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Klee, Paul

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

Andy Warhol

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

A Course In Miracles

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Brown, Les

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Menander of Athens

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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 yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.