Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dunn, Elizabeth C.

Best Quotes about Change

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Brown, Les

10.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

21.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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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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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Klee, Paul

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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