Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Menander of Athens

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ruskin, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Naisbitt, John

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Mcgovern, William

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Heraclitus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Bhagavad Gita

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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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

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Andy Warhol

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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 first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.