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

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

Virgil

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Confucius

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter 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

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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 swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.