Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

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

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

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

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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Heraclitus

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

Harrison Ford

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

29.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Hooker, Richard

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proust, Marcel

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Confucius

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

Virgil

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

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

George, David Lloyd