Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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?

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

10.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Christina Baldwin

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

18.

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

19.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Spander, Art

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

Kempis, Thomas

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

34.

Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

35.

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

Shelton, Richard

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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

38.

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

40.

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