Motivational Quotes

Change

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Brown, Les

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

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Mcgovern, William

The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Depree, Max

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 don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ramsay Clark

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

George, David Lloyd

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

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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