Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

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

Herford, Oliver

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.

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

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Depree, Max

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

10.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Spander, Art

12.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Paz, Octavio

15.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

16.

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

17.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Hoffer, Eric

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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

27.

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

28.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Petworth, John

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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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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

32.

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

34.

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

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

39.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

43.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

44.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

45.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Confucius

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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 main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Waitley, Denis