Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Bible

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?

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Spander, Art

10.

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

Proust, Marcel

11.

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

Jackson, Jesse

12.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

19.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Tracy, Brian

24.

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

25.

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

26.

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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

28.

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

29.

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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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

31.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Heraclitus

34.

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

35.

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

Eliot, George

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.