Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Stevenson, Adlai E.

Best Quotes about Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Ruskin, John

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

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

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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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

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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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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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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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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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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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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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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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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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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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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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

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Robbins, Anthony

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The only people who like change are wet babies.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Heraclitus