Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

- I Ching

Best Quotes about Change

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

Eliot, George

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Freeman, James Dillet

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Herford, Oliver

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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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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

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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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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Harrison Ford

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

Andy Warhol

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Petworth, John

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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 your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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