Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Christina Baldwin

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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?

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Herford, Oliver

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

Davis, William B.

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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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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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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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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Bible

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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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

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Paul, Jean

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Angelou, Maya

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.