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

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

Davis, William B.

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

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Shaw, P.K.

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Naisbitt, John

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Andy Warhol

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Sontag, Susan

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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.

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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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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles