Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bible

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Felltham, Owen

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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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.

32.

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

Lynn Hall

33.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

35.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Spander, Art

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Jackson, Nelson

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

Proust, Marcel

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Heraclitus

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.