Motivational Quotes

Change

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

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Best Quotes about Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

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

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Naisbitt, John

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

12.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Bellin, Gita

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Bible

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Confucius

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Ruskin, John

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

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen