Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Change

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

Davis, William B.

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

Harrison Ford

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

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

Rogers, Will

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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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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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.

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Murdock, Mike

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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

Udall, Mo

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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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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Ruskin, John

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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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 search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

30.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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

Paul, Jean

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Porter, Irene

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

Branden, Nathaniel

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

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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