Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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.

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

Davis, William B.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Petworth, John

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

11.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

12.

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

13.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Menander of Athens

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Waitley, Denis

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Heraclitus

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

43.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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