Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paz, Octavio

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

George, David Lloyd

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

10.

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

11.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

14.

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

Menander of Athens

15.

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

16.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

17.

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

18.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

19.

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

Dewar, Jeff

20.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

21.

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

22.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

24.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

26.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

27.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

28.

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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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

30.

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

31.

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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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

33.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

34.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Heraclitus

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

Paul, Jean

37.

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

38.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

40.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

41.

Constant change is here to stay.

42.

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

Shaw, P.K.

43.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

44.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

45.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

46.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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 change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mohammed

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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