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

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Spander, Art

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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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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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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Susan Rice

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

Bible

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

Lynn Hall

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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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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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela