Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Butterworth, Eric

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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

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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

18.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Brown, Les

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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.

28.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

29.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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 not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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?

33.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Waitley, Denis

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

37.

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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

39.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.