Motivational Quotes

Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

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

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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 people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Sontag, Susan

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Confucius

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Waitley, Denis

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