Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Davis, William B.

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

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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

10.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

11.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

12.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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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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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Harrison Ford

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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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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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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

Shelton, Richard