Motivational Quotes

Change

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Change

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

Carol Burnett

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Schoeder, Caroline

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Bailey, Pearl

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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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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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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

Andy Warhol

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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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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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