Motivational Quotes

Change

A rut is a grave with no ends.

- Lampkin, Alan

Best Quotes about Change

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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

Klee, Paul

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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

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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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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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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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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Bible

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Heraclitus

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Heraclitus

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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

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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara