Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

10.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

11.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

12.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

15.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

16.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

19.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

20.

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

21.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

22.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

23.

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

24.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

25.

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

Dewar, Jeff

26.

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

27.

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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

30.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

A Course In Miracles

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Sontag, Susan

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