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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Angelou, Maya

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

12.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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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

14.

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

Confucius

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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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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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Petworth, John

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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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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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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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

Porter, Irene

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

Bible

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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