Motivational Quotes

Change

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Change

Constant change is here to stay.

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

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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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

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius