Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Change

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Nelson Mandela

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Mohammed

10.

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

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

12.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Heraclitus

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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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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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

40.

Constant change is here to stay.

41.

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

Virgil

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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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

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

Hoffer, Eric

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.