Motivational Quotes

Change

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Change

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

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Constant change is here to stay.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Bible

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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

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

Tracy, Brian

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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

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Naisbitt, John

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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 only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Paul, Jean

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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