Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Pickens, T. Boone

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kempis, Thomas

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Confucius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Menander of Athens

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Shelton, Richard

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.