Motivational Quotes

Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

- Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Best Quotes about Change

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

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

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

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

Carol Burnett

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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.

10.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

11.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

12.

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

13.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

14.

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

Dewar, Jeff

15.

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

Bennett, Arnold

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

19.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

20.

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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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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

Herford, Oliver

24.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

25.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

26.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

27.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

28.

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

Dante Alighieri

29.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

30.

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

31.

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

33.

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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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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Paul, Jean

42.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

44.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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

49.

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

Kettering, Charles F.