Motivational Quotes

Change

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, David Lloyd

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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

Watts, Alan W.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Lynn Hall

12.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Dewar, Jeff

14.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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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

17.

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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

19.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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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Constant change is here to stay.

24.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

25.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

27.

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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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

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

Proust, Marcel

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

31.

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

32.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Heraclitus

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Heraclitus

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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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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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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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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

44.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

45.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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.