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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Schoeder, Caroline

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerhart, Susan

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

20.

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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Andy Warhol

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Burke, Edmund

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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 change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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