Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Heraclitus

Best Quotes about Change

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hoffer, Eric

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Draper, John W.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

10.

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

11.

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

12.

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

Hooker, Richard

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A Course In Miracles

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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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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 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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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

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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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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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 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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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 is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Mcgovern, William

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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