Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Riley, Pat

If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Susan Rice

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

36.

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?

37.

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

39.

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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Dean, Jimmy

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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.