Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

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Best Quotes about Change

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Kempis, Thomas

10.

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

11.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

12.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Heraclitus

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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 all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

18.

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

19.

I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

20.

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

Petworth, John

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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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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Constant change is here to stay.

28.

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

29.

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

Bailey, Pearl

30.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

31.

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

32.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

33.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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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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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ward, William A.

42.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Andy Warhol

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.