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

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

11.

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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Depree, Max

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Virgil

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Paul, Jean

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Menander of Athens

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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.

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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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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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.