Motivational Quotes

Change

When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

- Richfield, Lew

Best Quotes about Change

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

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Bennett, Arnold

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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Ramsay Clark

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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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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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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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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 not reform, any more than noise is music.

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

Brown, Les

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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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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Christina Baldwin

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James