Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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?

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Shelton, Richard

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

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

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Andy Warhol

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Felltham, Owen

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Davis, William B.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Spander, Art

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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