Motivational Quotes

Change

The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

- Mcgovern, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

Glasgow, Ellen

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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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?

12.

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

13.

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

Susan Rice

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

Virgil

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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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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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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

Confucius

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

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Proust, Marcel

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Constant change is here to stay.

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Tracy, Brian

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.