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

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Rogers, Will

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Depree, Max

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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

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.