Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

Stevenson, Adlai E.

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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

Spencer, Herbert

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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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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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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Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Hooker, Richard

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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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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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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.

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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

Tilden, Bill

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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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.

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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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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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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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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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We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Porter, Irene

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

Bible

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus