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

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

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Confucius

Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Freeman, James Dillet

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Heraclitus

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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

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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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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

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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Tracy, Brian

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Constant change is here to stay.

34.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Watts, Alan W.

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

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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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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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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