Motivational Quotes

Change

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

- Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Best Quotes about Change

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

Paul, Jean

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Heraclitus

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Brown, Les

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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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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Burke, Edmund

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Spencer, Herbert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lynn Hall

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

Felltham, Owen

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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

Tilden, Bill

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bailey, Pearl