Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Best Quotes about Change

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

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Virgil

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

Einstein, Albert

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Paul, Jean

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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

11.

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

Kearney

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Franklin, Benjamin

19.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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.

22.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

27.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

28.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Felltham, Owen

40.

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

41.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Murdock, Mike

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Waitley, Denis

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Nelson Mandela