Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Bennett, Arnold

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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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 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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

Andy Warhol

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Constant change is here to stay.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

25.

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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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

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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

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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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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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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 is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Davis, William B.

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Kearney