Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Walesa, Lech

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Heraclitus

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Riley, Pat

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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