Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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

Porter, Irene

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

Murdock, Mike

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

George, David Lloyd

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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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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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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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.

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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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The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

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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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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Heraclitus

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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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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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

49.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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