Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

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

Tilden, Bill

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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

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

Porter, Irene

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

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

25.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

28.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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Constant change is here to stay.

30.

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

Paz, Octavio

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Mcgovern, William

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Tracy, Brian

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Waitley, Denis

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe