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

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.

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

Tilden, Bill

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

The only people who like change are wet babies.

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change.

Kempis, Thomas

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hooker, Richard

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Lynn Hall

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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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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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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

George, David Lloyd

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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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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

Asimov, Isaac

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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

Paz, Octavio

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

Real Live Preacher

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Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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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The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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

Davis, William B.

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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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If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Rohn, Jim

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.