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

Constant change is here to stay.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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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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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.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Confucius

19.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

20.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

21.

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.

22.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Shaw, P.K.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

34.

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

35.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Waitley, Denis

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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

Heraclitus

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

Shelton, Richard

49.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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?