Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Andy Warhol

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

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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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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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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Spander, Art

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Harrison Ford

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Klee, Paul

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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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