Motivational Quotes

Change

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Change

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

Drucker, Peter F.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Susan Rice

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bible

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

25.

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

Shelton, Richard

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mohammed

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Harrison Ford

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.