Motivational Quotes

Change

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Change

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

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

Heraclitus

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Buffett, Warren

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

14.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andy Warhol

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Heraclitus

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

22.

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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Depree, Max

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

43.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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

45.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.