Motivational Quotes

Change

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

- Bennett, Arnold

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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?

10.

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.

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Heraclitus

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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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

Churchill, Winston

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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

Heraclitus