Motivational Quotes

Change

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Depree, Max

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Heraclitus

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

11.

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

Walesa, Lech

12.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

15.

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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

17.

Constant change is here to stay.

18.

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Freeman, James Dillet

26.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

38.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

39.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Naisbitt, John

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Lynn Hall

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard