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 the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Klee, Paul

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Jackson, Nelson

10.

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

Sontag, Susan

11.

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

Burke, Edmund

12.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

13.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

14.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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

16.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

17.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Shaw, P.K.

21.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

22.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Dante Alighieri

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

25.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

26.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

27.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

28.

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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

31.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

32.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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

34.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

35.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bible

37.

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

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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