Motivational Quotes

Change

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Lynn Hall

All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Riley, Pat

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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

Constant change is here to stay.

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Spander, Art

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Petworth, John

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Eliot, George

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Heraclitus

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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