Motivational Quotes

Change

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

- Bryant, William C.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Menander of Athens

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Einstein, Albert

Constant change is here to stay.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Heraclitus

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

Felltham, Owen

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

12.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

13.

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Depree, Max

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

Brown, Les

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

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Christina Baldwin

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Proust, Marcel

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Nelson Mandela

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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.

43.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Everything changes but change.