Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bryant, William C.

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.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Petworth, John

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shaw, P.K.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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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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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

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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

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

Tilden, Bill

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Freeman, James Dillet