Motivational Quotes

Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Change

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

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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.

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

Rohn, Jim

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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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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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

14.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Naisbitt, John

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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

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Tilden, Bill

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bible

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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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

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

Riley, Pat

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

Porter, Irene

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

39.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Freeman, James Dillet

43.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

George, David Lloyd

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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.