Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Davis, William B.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

11.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

13.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

15.

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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

19.

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

Carol Burnett

20.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

21.

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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

23.

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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

27.

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

Menander of Athens

28.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Felltham, Owen

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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

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

Bryant, William C.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

41.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Virgil

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

45.

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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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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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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.