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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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 hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Brown, Les

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Porter, Irene

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

10.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Confucius

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

Heraclitus

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

A Course In Miracles

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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

Lynn Hall

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Andy Warhol

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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