Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

10.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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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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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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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Mohammed

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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.

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Murdock, Mike

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

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

Virgil

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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