Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Burke, Edmund

Best Quotes about Change

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?

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

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Draper, John W.

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

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

12.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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.

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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.

22.

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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

24.

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

25.

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

32.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius