Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dante Alighieri

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dante Alighieri

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.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Paul, Jean

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.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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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

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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Real Live Preacher

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Udall, Mo

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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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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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Rohn, Jim

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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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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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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 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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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