Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Change

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

Porter, Irene

They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Brown, Les

The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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

Herford, Oliver

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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.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Paul, Jean

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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Depree, Max

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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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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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Bible

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

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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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 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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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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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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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

Christina Baldwin

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Murdock, Mike

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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

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William