Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Hooker, Richard

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Tracy, Brian

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

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Udall, Mo

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Spander, Art

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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

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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.

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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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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Petworth, John

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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 only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Heraclitus

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles