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

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

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

Spander, Art

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Glasgow, Ellen

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Heraclitus

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hooker, Richard

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tracy, Brian

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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 and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

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

Paul, Jean

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

29.

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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

41.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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