Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Harrison Ford

Best Quotes about Change

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Real Live Preacher

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Paz, Octavio

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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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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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

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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

Bible

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

Herford, Oliver

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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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?

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Eliot, George

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Burke, Edmund

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Tilden, Bill

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.