Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Jackson, Jesse

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Paz, Octavio

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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Heraclitus

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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.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Naisbitt, John

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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

Confucius

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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