Motivational Quotes

Change

The moment of change is the only poem.

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Change

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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.

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Sontag, Susan

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.

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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

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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Ward, William A.

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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?

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

A Course In Miracles

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

Bible

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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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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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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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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Petworth, John

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

Brown, Les

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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Constant change is here to stay.

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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

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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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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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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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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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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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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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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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