Motivational Quotes

Change

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

- Gilcrest, Peter

Best Quotes about Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Socrates

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Draper, John W.

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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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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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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Kearney

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

29.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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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.

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Felltham, Owen