Motivational Quotes

Change

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Draper, John W.

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

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

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.