Motivational Quotes

Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

- Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carol Burnett

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Udall, Mo

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

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Paz, Octavio

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Virgil

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Naisbitt, John

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Heraclitus

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

Tilden, Bill

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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