Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Tracy, Brian

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

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

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

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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Heraclitus

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Walesa, Lech

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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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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

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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 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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Rohn, Jim

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Heraclitus

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Porter, Irene

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert