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

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Pope, Alexander

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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.

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

Heraclitus

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

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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 not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Virgil

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Dante Alighieri

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Spander, Art

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

Churchill, Winston

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.