Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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.

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

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Heraclitus

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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

11.

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

Heraclitus

12.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

13.

The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

14.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Harrison Ford

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

28.

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

30.

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

33.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

34.

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

Bailey, Pearl

35.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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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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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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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Felltham, Owen

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