Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

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

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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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

14.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Davis, William B.

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Paul, Jean

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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