Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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.

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

Sontag, Susan

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Paul, Jean

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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.

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Rohn, Jim

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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