Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Susan Rice

Best Quotes about Change

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

Dewar, Jeff

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Christina Baldwin

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

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

Schoeder, Caroline

This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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

Herford, Oliver

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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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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Spander, Art

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

Tracy, Brian

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To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

Confucius

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Shaw, P.K.

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

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

Felltham, Owen

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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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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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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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

Ward, William A.