Motivational Quotes

Change

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Best Quotes about Change

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Ward, William A.

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

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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 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

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

Kettering, Charles F.

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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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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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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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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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

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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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

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

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

Felltham, Owen

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Murdock, Mike

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Constant change is here to stay.

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We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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 inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Spander, Art

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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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

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

Mailer, Norman

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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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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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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