Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

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

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?

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

Heraclitus

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

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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.

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Virgil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Carol Burnett

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Watts, Alan W.

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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