Motivational Quotes

Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Confucius

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Proust, Marcel

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Susan Rice

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

George, David Lloyd

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Depree, Max

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

Einstein, Albert

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Naisbitt, John

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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 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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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