Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Naisbitt, John

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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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.

Sallust

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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 more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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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

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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

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

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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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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.