Motivational Quotes

Change

Things do not change, we do.

- Thoreau, Henry David

Best Quotes about Change

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Spencer, Herbert

There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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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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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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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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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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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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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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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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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Davis, William B.

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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

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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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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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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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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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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