Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Watts, Alan W.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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

Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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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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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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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

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

Petworth, John

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

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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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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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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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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent