Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Waitley, Denis

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Jackson, Nelson

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

11.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Porter, Irene

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Tilden, Bill

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Davis, William B.

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

29.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Riley, Pat

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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.

33.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

34.

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.