Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Paul, Jean

Best Quotes about Change

Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Sinetar, Marsha

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Udall, Mo

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bailey, Pearl

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Burke, Edmund

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

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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

Eliot, George

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

Mcgovern, William

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Virgil

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

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet