Motivational Quotes

Change

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

A Course In Miracles

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Petworth, John

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

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Sontag, Susan

40.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Rogers, Will

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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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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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