Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Bible

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

Menander of Athens

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Andy Warhol

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

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Udall, Mo

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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

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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 nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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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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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 is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Heraclitus

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.