Motivational Quotes

Change

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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

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

Ruskin, John

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

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

Porter, Irene

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

10.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

11.

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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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?

13.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

16.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Tracy, Brian

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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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

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

35.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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