Motivational Quotes

Change

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Moodie, Susanna

Best Quotes about Change

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

Klee, Paul

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Tilden, Bill

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Branden, Nathaniel

I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

10.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha

11.

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

Virgil

12.

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

13.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

17.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

18.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

19.

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

Petworth, John

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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

21.

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.

22.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

25.

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

Burke, Edmund

26.

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.

28.

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

Udall, Mo

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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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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.

34.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

35.

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

Menander of Athens

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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

37.

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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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

40.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

41.

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

Bailey, Pearl

42.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proust, Marcel

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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

48.

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

49.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

50.

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

Naisbitt, John