Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Ward, William A.

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

23.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

George, David Lloyd

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Freeman, James Dillet

31.

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

Lynn Hall

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Tilden, Bill

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Waitley, Denis

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General