Motivational Quotes

Change

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

- Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Best Quotes about Change

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Spencer, Herbert

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Paul, Jean

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.

Davis, William B.

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tracy, Brian

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Spander, Art

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Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Virgil

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Kearney

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Andy Warhol

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

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser