Motivational Quotes

Change

There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

- Raleigh, Sir Walter

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.

Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Andy Warhol

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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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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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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Murdock, Mike

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Robbins, Anthony

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Klee, Paul

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Waitley, Denis

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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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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

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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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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.