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

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

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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.

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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Depree, Max

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Mohammed

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Klee, Paul

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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