Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Change

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

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Depree, Max

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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 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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Waitley, Denis

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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 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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Murdock, Mike

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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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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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Sinetar, Marsha