Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Davis, William B.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

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

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

Ramsay Clark

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Davis, William B.

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

Waitley, Denis

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Heraclitus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Shelton, Richard

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Gerhart, Susan

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