Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schoeder, Caroline

Best Quotes about Change

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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.

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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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 has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Confucius

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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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

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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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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

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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

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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Heraclitus

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Shelton, Richard

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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

Paul, Jean

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Ruskin, John

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.