Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

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

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

Dante Alighieri

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Mcgovern, William

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Heraclitus

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Constant change is here to stay.

35.

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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tilden, Bill

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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.

40.

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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