Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Confucius

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

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.

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

Bible

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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

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

Buffett, Warren

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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?

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Christina Baldwin

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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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 difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Spander, Art

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

Murdock, Mike

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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