Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Gerhart, Susan

Best Quotes about Change

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Christina Baldwin

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

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

George, David Lloyd

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Carol Burnett

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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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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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Herford, Oliver

20.

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

Brown, Les

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

Dante Alighieri

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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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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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Virgil

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Ward, William A.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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