Motivational Quotes

Change

We need to change so we can remain the same.

- Serrity, Dorothy

Best Quotes about Change

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Robbins, Anthony

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Paul, Jean

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bible

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

Petworth, John

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Constant change is here to stay.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

35.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

43.

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.