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

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Confucius

Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Kearney

11.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

15.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bible

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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

Porter, Irene

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Shaw, P.K.

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge