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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Ramsay Clark

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

A Course In Miracles

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Dewar, Jeff

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Murdock, Mike

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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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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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

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

Heraclitus

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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

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

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

Bible

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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Constant change is here to stay.