Motivational Quotes

Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

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

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

Carol Burnett

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Shelton, Richard

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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