Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Watts, Alan W.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Naisbitt, John

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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 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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Confucius

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Constant change is here to stay.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Jackson, Jesse

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.