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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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.

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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Tracy, Brian

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

27.

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

28.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Confucius

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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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.

44.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Porter, Irene

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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 word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus