Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Heraclitus

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

10.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

11.

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

Rohn, Jim

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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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.

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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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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

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

30.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Rogers, Will

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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