Motivational Quotes

Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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

19.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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.

21.

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Heraclitus

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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.

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Constant change is here to stay.

41.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.