Motivational Quotes

Change

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Change

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

Murdock, Mike

Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

Virgil

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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

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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 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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Spander, Art

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carol Burnett

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Tracy, Brian

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Ruskin, John

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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

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