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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Depree, Max

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Virgil

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

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Mcgovern, William

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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