Motivational Quotes

Change

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

- Alther, Lisa

Best Quotes about Change

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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.

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Confucius

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Eliot, George

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Porter, Irene

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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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 things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Riley, Pat

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