Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Bellin, Gita

Best Quotes about Change

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Baudrillard, Jean

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

10.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

Spander, Art

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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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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Ruskin, John

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Andy Warhol

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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

Bible

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.