Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

10.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

11.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

12.

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

Rogers, Will

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

Butterworth, Eric

15.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

16.

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

17.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

18.

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.

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

21.

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

Petworth, John

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

23.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

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

Christina Baldwin

25.

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

26.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

27.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Heraclitus

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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

32.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Shelton, Richard

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

44.

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 has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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