Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

10.

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

Rohn, Jim

11.

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

12.

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

Andy Warhol

13.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

14.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

15.

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

16.

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

17.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

18.

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

19.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

Bennett, Arnold

21.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Heraclitus

24.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

25.

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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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

27.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

28.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

29.

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

30.

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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

33.

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

34.

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

Murdock, Mike

35.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

37.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

45.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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