Motivational Quotes

Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

- Peale, Norman Vincent

Best Quotes about Change

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Tilden, Bill

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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?

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Klee, Paul

10.

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

12.

All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Murdock, Mike

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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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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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Jackson, Nelson

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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.

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

24.

We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

29.

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

31.

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

Shaw, P.K.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

43.

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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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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

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

Shelton, Richard

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

50.

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