Motivational Quotes

Change

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

- Mohammed

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Burke, Edmund

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.