Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

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

Heraclitus

Constant change is here to stay.

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

10.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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

19.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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

21.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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

28.

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

Menander of Athens

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

30.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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