Motivational Quotes

Change

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

- Draper, John W.

Best Quotes about Change

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

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Kearney

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Dewar, Jeff

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

11.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Felltham, Owen

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

25.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

26.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

28.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

31.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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 longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Heraclitus

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

Paul, Jean

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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