Motivational Quotes

Change

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

- Moorse, Gene

Best Quotes about Change

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Gerhart, Susan

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

11.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

28.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Andy Warhol

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

36.

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Harrison Ford

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Porter, Irene

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.