Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Paul, Jean

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

Udall, Mo

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

11.

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

George, David Lloyd

12.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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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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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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

Virgil

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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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

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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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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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.