Motivational Quotes

Change

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

- McLaughlin, Mignon

Best Quotes about Change

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

Branden, Nathaniel

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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?

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Murdock, Mike

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Klee, Paul

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

Rogers, Will

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You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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

Paul, Jean

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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

Bennett, Arnold

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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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

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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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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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