Motivational Quotes

Change

Music can't change the world.

- Geldof, Bob

Best Quotes about Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Waitley, Denis

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Mohammed

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Porter, Irene

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

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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