Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proust, Marcel

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

11.

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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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

31.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Depree, Max

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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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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

41.

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

Rohn, Jim

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Hoffer, Eric

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