Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Change

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

Herford, Oliver

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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.

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

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

10.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Burke, Edmund

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Spencer, Herbert

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna