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

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

A Course In Miracles

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

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.

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Spander, Art

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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

Waitley, Denis

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Paul, Jean

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Bible

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Riley, Pat

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.