Motivational Quotes

Change

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

- Lee, Bruce

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bennett, Arnold

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Confucius

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.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Waitley, Denis

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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