Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Change

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Udall, Mo

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Heraclitus

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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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 entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Angelou, Maya

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bailey, Pearl

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Confucius

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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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