Motivational Quotes

Change

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.

Best Quotes about Change

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Paul, Jean

The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Harrison Ford

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proust, Marcel

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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

Lynn Hall

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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Bailey, Pearl

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Virgil

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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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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