Motivational Quotes

Change

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Mohammed

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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.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Paul, Jean

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Porter, Irene

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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.

28.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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 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

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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

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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

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Davis, William B.

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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 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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat