Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Petworth, John

Best Quotes about Change

In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Udall, Mo

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

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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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

11.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

12.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Porter, Irene

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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

23.

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

Spander, Art

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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.

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

Jackson, Jesse

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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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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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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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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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