Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Best Quotes about Change

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

Eliot, George

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Depree, Max

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Paul, Jean

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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

Porter, Irene

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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

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

Christina Baldwin

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Andy Warhol

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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Never change a winning game; always change a losing one.

Tilden, Bill

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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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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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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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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

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

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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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 alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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