Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Murdock, Mike

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

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

Naisbitt, John

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Bellin, Gita

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

21.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

22.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

25.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Virgil

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Real Live Preacher

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Paul, Jean

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

42.

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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Confucius