Motivational Quotes

Change

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Constant change is here to stay.

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Confucius

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

Andy Warhol

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

35.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Socrates

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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

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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.

45.

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

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

Virgil

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Naisbitt, John

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?