Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- George, David Lloyd

Best Quotes about Change

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

Mohammed

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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

Paul, Jean

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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

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

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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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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.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Andy Warhol

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Shelton, Richard

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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.

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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.

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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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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

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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

33.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

34.

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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

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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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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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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Carol Burnett

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

Naisbitt, John

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese