Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

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

Heraclitus

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

28.

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

Riley, Pat

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Angelou, Maya

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Davis, William B.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

40.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

41.

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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Heraclitus

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

48.

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.

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les