Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Shelton, Richard

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

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

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

Shelton, Richard

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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.

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mcgovern, William

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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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.

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

Ruskin, John

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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

Proust, Marcel

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Virgil

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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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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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The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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

Hoffer, Eric

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Confucius

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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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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund