Motivational Quotes

Change

It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Ward, William A.

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Rogers, Will

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Carol Burnett

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Tracy, Brian

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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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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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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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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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe