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

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Porter, Irene

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.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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

11.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

12.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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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?

15.

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

20.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Christina Baldwin

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Spander, Art

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Paul, Jean

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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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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.