Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Paz, Octavio

People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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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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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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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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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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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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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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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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Heraclitus

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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 true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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

Carol Burnett

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Spander, Art