Motivational Quotes

Change

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

- D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

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

Gilcrest, Peter

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

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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

Andy Warhol

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

10.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

11.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

12.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

13.

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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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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.

17.

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.

18.

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

Brown, Les

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

Shelton, Richard

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

Porter, Irene

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.

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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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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

43.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim