Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Change

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

Hooker, Richard

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

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

Lynn Hall

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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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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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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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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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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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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

Bible

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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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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

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

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Lee, Bruce

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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.