Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Confucius

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Heraclitus

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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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

George, David Lloyd

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

Petworth, John

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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

Christina Baldwin

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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?

43.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent