Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Riley, Pat

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

Eliot, George

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Glasgow, Ellen

10.

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Confucius

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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

14.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

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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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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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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Carol Burnett

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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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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Constant change is here to stay.

31.

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

Udall, Mo

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Davis, William B.

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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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

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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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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Mohammed

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Bible

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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 we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di