Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Petworth, John

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

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

Carol Burnett

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Riley, Pat

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Dante Alighieri

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buffett, Warren

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Angelou, Maya

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

28.

This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Watts, Alan W.

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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.

34.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

35.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Heraclitus

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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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