Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Heraclitus

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

Peters, Thomas J.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Rogers, Will

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Eliot, George

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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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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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

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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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo