Motivational Quotes

Change

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes.

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

Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Buffett, Warren

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

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

Kempis, Thomas

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

Butterworth, Eric

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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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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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?

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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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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

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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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.

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Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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

Hooker, Richard

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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

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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.

Huxley, Elspeth

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

George, David Lloyd

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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

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

Gerhart, Susan

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

Tilden, Bill

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Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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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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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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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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

Harrison Ford

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

Udall, Mo

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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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Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

Paul, Jean

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

Astor, Lady Nancy

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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

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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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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert