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

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

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

A Course In Miracles

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Glasgow, Ellen

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Heraclitus

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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