Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Almanac, Mary S.

Best Quotes about Change

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

Klee, Paul

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Udall, Mo

Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

Bryant, William C.

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

Confucius

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

10.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

11.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

13.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Menander of Athens

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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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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

Bennett, Arnold

20.

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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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.

Meryl Streep

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

Bastos, Augusto Roa

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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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The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

Dante Alighieri

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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hoffer, Eric

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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.

Alinsky, Saul

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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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.

31.

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

Lynn Hall

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

35.

Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

36.

It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

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

Gerhart, Susan

41.

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

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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

44.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

45.

What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always.

Shelton, Richard

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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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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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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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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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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