Motivational Quotes

Change

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

- Guthrie, Woody

Best Quotes about Change

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

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

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

Petworth, John

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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

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.

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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

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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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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Virgil

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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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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Heraclitus

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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