Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Shelton, Richard

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

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

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.

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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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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 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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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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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

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood