Motivational Quotes

Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

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

Naisbitt, John

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

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

Nelson Mandela

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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.

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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 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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

A Course In Miracles

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Spander, Art

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Heraclitus

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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