Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Rogers, Will

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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

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

Depree, Max

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

Andy Warhol

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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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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Gerhart, Susan

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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People can cry much easier than they can change.