Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

Davis, William B.

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

Bible

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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

11.

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

12.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

13.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

14.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

15.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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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

20.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

Gerhart, Susan

26.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

27.

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

Nelson Mandela

28.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

29.

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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

31.

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

A Course In Miracles

32.

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

33.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

34.

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

41.

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

42.

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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

45.

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

Proust, Marcel

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Menander of Athens

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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