Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Sinetar, Marsha

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Petworth, John

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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'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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Waitley, Denis

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Virgil

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Murdock, Mike

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

42.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood