Motivational Quotes

Change

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

- ThÝch Nhat Hanh

Best Quotes about Change

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Menander of Athens

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

Dean, Jimmy

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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

Virgil

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Lynn Hall

10.

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

11.

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.

12.

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

Heraclitus

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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

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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

18.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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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

22.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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

25.

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

Naisbitt, John

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

28.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

29.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

30.

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

Christina Baldwin

31.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Angelou, Maya

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

44.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Felltham, Owen

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

49.

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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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