Motivational Quotes

Change

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Best Quotes about Change

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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.

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Heraclitus

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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 not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Heraclitus

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

Schuller, Robert H.

25.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Tracy, Brian

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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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

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Naisbitt, John

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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