Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

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.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Mcgovern, William

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Felltham, Owen

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proust, Marcel

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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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Spander, Art

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

Heraclitus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Lynn Hall

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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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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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Naisbitt, John

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

A Course In Miracles

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Churchill, Winston

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Bailey, Pearl

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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