Motivational Quotes

Change

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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.

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

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Branden, Nathaniel

10.

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

Virgil

11.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

12.

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

Davis, William B.

13.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

14.

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

19.

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

Riley, Pat

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

21.

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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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.

23.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

24.

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

Jackson, Nelson

25.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

26.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Christina Baldwin

30.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

31.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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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

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

39.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Constant change is here to stay.

45.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

49.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Jackson, Jesse