Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Schoeder, Caroline

Best Quotes about Change

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

Ryan, Nolan

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

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

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?

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

Confucius

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People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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

Udall, Mo

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

Butterworth, Eric

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

Dean, Jimmy

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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.

Christina Baldwin

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

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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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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Brown, Les

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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.

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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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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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Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Adlai E.

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

McLaughlin, Mignon

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shaw, P.K.

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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 industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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