Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

Lee, Bruce

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

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

Virgil

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Porter, Irene

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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 word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Proust, Marcel