Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spander, Art

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Carol Burnett

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Virgil

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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 fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Buffett, Warren

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Angelou, Maya

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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

Herford, Oliver