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

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

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Heraclitus

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Brown, Les

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

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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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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Carol Burnett

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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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 moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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