Motivational Quotes

Change

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Riley, Pat

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

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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

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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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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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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

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

A Course In Miracles

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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

Carol Burnett

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

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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

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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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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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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

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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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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Garfield, Charles A.