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

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Riley, Pat

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

12.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

19.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

20.

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

Hooker, Richard

21.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Ramsay Clark

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mohammed

34.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

35.

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

36.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

37.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

38.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Lynn Hall

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

Ruskin, John