Motivational Quotes

Change

People can cry much easier than they can change.

- Baldwin, James

Best Quotes about Change

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

George, David Lloyd

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

Bellin, Gita

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

Ward, William A.

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Harrison Ford

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.

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

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

10.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

11.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

12.

I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

15.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

16.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

17.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Tilden, Bill

19.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

20.

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

Hooker, Richard

21.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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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

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

24.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

25.

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

26.

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

27.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

28.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

Naisbitt, John

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

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

30.

To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

31.

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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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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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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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

35.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

36.

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

37.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.

Proust, Marcel

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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

40.

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.

41.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

42.

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

43.

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.

44.

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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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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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

47.

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?

48.

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

Bennett, Arnold

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

50.

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