Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Sontag, Susan

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Spander, Art

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

Paz, Octavio

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Naisbitt, John

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Christina Baldwin

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

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

George, David Lloyd

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha