Motivational Quotes

Change

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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 only people who like change are wet babies.

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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 nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike