Motivational Quotes

Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

- Clark, Karen Kaiser

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Carol Burnett

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

Draper, John W.

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

George, David Lloyd

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

10.

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

11.

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

12.

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

Real Live Preacher

13.

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

Naisbitt, John

14.

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

29.

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

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Confucius

33.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Ward, William A.

39.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

40.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.