Motivational Quotes

Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

19.

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.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

25.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

35.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

36.

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

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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

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Sinetar, Marsha

43.

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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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

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Bible

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Gilcrest, Peter