Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Proust, Marcel

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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 in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

17.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

20.

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

Kearney

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Harrison Ford

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Heraclitus

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ruskin, John

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

44.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Naisbitt, John

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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.