Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

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

Buffett, Warren

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Ramsay Clark

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

Waitley, Denis

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Dean, Jimmy

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

10.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

12.

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

Confucius

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

Menander of Athens

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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 begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Brown, Les

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

A Course In Miracles

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

21.

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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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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.

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

30.

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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Shelton, Richard

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

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Schoeder, Caroline

37.

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?

38.

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

39.

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

Depree, Max

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Porter, Irene

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius