Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.

King Whitney Jr.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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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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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Petworth, John

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Andy Warhol

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.

Butterworth, Eric

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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 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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.