Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

Nelson Mandela

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Davis, William B.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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.

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

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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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carol Burnett

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Ruskin, John

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Peters, Thomas J.