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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Best Quotes about Change

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

Udall, Mo

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Dante Alighieri

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

Confucius

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Riley, Pat

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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 is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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?

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Paul, Jean

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

Tracy, Brian

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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