Motivational Quotes

Change

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

- Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Best Quotes about Change

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Bennett, Arnold

Constant change is here to stay.

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

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Buffett, Warren

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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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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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Heraclitus

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Bible

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.