Motivational Quotes

Change

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

- Ramsay Clark

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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 are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Angelou, Maya

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bible

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Paul, Jean

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

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar