Motivational Quotes

Change

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

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

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

Ward, William A.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

Waitley, Denis

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.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Heraclitus

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Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

Almanac, Mary S.

13.

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

Glasgow, Ellen

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Ramsay Clark

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

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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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People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Dewar, Jeff

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

Churchill, Winston

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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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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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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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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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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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