Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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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

2.

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

3.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

4.

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

5.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

6.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

8.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

9.

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

10.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

11.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

12.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

13.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

14.

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

Hoffer, Eric

15.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

16.

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

17.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

19.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

20.

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

Andy Warhol

21.

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

Paul, Jean

22.

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

23.

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

24.

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

Shelton, Richard

25.

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

George, David Lloyd

28.

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

Bailey, Pearl

29.

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

30.

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

Jackson, Nelson

31.

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

Watts, Alan W.

32.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

34.

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

35.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

36.

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

37.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

38.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

39.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

40.

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

41.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

42.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

43.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

44.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

45.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

46.

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

47.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

48.

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

49.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

50.

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William