Motivational Quotes

Change

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Change

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

A Course In Miracles

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Hooker, Richard

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.

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

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Davis, William B.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

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

Carol Burnett

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Heraclitus

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Naisbitt, John

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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