Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spander, Art

Best Quotes about Change

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Hooker, Richard

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

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

Ruskin, John

11.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

13.

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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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

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

Depree, Max

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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

18.

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

Proust, Marcel

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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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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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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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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

26.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

27.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

28.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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

Susan Rice

33.

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

34.

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

Burke, Edmund

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

38.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

39.

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

Rogers, Will

40.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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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 entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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