Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Spencer, Herbert

Best Quotes about Change

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Dean, Jimmy

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Change is not reform, any more than noise is music.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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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

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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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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The most serious charge that can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

Lynn Hall

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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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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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

Harrison Ford

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

Udall, Mo

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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.