Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

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

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

A Course In Miracles

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

Bible

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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Paul, Jean

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

Klee, Paul

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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