Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

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

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Watts, Alan W.

Constant change is here to stay.

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Angelou, Maya

10.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

11.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

12.

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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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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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

16.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bennett, Arnold

18.

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

19.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

20.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Waitley, Denis

22.

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

Robbins, Anthony

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Heraclitus

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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

28.

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

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Real Live Preacher

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

32.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Spander, Art

35.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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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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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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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.

48.

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

Bible

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser