Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Change

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Rohn, Jim

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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

A Course In Miracles

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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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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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

40.

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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Carol Burnett

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara