Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Spander, Art

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Drucker, Peter F.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

10.

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

11.

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

Christina Baldwin

12.

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

13.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

27.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

28.

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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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.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Paul, Jean

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

49.

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

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

Buffett, Warren