Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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

Hooker, Richard

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Felltham, Owen

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

Krutch, Joseph Wood

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

12.

The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Constant change is here to stay.

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

Tilden, Bill

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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

Bryson, Lyman L.

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Churchill, Winston

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.

Herford, Oliver

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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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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The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Sade, Marquis De

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Shaw, P.K.

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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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Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Real Live Preacher

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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold