Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Murdock, Mike

Best Quotes about Change

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

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

Andy Warhol

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

11.

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shelton, Richard

17.

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.

18.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

19.

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

Watts, Alan W.

22.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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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

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

33.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

34.

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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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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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

40.

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

42.

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

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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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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

45.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Tracy, Brian

47.

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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

Th�ch Nhat Hanh

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

Schuller, Robert H.