Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Constant change is here to stay.

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Garfield, Charles A.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Murdock, Mike

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

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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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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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.

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus