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

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Waitley, Denis

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Confucius

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.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

11.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

12.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

13.

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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

15.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

25.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

26.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

27.

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

28.

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

Dean, Jimmy

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

Heraclitus

30.

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

Porter, Irene

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

32.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Riley, Pat

35.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

36.

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

37.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

38.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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

40.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Hoffer, Eric

42.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Petworth, John