Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Brown, Les

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

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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?

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Davis, William B.

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Bryant, William C.

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Bible

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Heraclitus

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

Depree, Max

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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