Motivational Quotes

Change

Everything changes but change.

- Zangwill, Israel

Best Quotes about Change

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Davis, William B.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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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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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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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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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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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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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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results in periods of unreasoning enthusiasm on the one hand, and depression on the other. Man thus becomes the victim of the tides when he should be their Master.

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Tilden, Bill

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They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

Confucius

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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 pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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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'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?

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

Paul, Jean

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Kettering, Charles F.

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Beauvoir, Simone De

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Gerhart, Susan

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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.