Motivational Quotes

Change

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

- Adalphos, General

Best Quotes about Change

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Confucius

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Heraclitus

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

10.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

12.

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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Dean, Jimmy

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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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Menander of Athens

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

Susan Rice

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

34.

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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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carol Burnett

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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.

40.

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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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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.