Motivational Quotes

Change

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Herford, Oliver

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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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

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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

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Confucius

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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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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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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

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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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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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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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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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.

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

Porter, Irene

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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Petworth, John

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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe