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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Baudrillard, Jean

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Heraclitus

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

14.

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Ruskin, John

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Udall, Mo

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Paul, Jean

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

Bible

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Proust, Marcel

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les