Motivational Quotes

Change

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Change

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

Petworth, John

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Mohammed

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Udall, Mo

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Rohn, Jim

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Confucius

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas