Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Change

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Harrison Ford

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Porter, Irene

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

Confucius

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

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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.

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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

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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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.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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 not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Christina Baldwin

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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