Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shaw, P.K.

Best Quotes about Change

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Carol Burnett

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

George, David Lloyd

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

10.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Petworth, John

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Klee, Paul

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

Shaw, P.K.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Buffett, Warren

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Bible

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

Heraclitus

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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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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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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Naisbitt, John

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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 in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Brown, Les

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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