Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Real Live Preacher

Best Quotes about Change

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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

Ruskin, John

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

Brown, Les

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

22.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Bible

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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.

41.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

Heraclitus

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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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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

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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.