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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Ruskin, John

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Angelou, Maya

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Heraclitus

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Confucius

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

Naisbitt, John

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Robbins, Anthony

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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.