Motivational Quotes

Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Change

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

A Course In Miracles

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Proust, Marcel

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Porter, Irene

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Mcgovern, William

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John