Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bennett, Arnold

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Butterworth, Eric

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

10.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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?

17.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

21.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Ruskin, John

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

Heraclitus

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Depree, Max

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

Nelson Mandela

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

Bible

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Carol Burnett

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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 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