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

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

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

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

Nelson Mandela

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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

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

Davis, William B.

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kempis, Thomas

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art