Motivational Quotes

Change

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Change

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.

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Udall, Mo

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Shelton, Richard

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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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Klee, Paul

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Sinetar, Marsha

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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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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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.

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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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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.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Bennett, Arnold

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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

Ruskin, John

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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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Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Davis, William B.

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

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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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

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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