Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Hooker, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Murdock, Mike

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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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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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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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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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Andy Warhol

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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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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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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