Motivational Quotes

Change

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Change

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

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

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

Tilden, Bill

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

10.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

11.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

12.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

13.

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

14.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

15.

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

16.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

17.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

18.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

19.

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

20.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

21.

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?

22.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

23.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

28.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

29.

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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Depree, Max

32.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

33.

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

Burke, Edmund

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

35.

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

Naisbitt, John

36.

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

37.

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

Paul, Jean

38.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

39.

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

Hooker, Richard

40.

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

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

43.

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

A Course In Miracles

44.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

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

Walesa, Lech

46.

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

Susan Rice

47.

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

48.

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

Carlyle, Thomas