Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Beauvoir, Simone De

Best Quotes about Change

If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Davis, William B.

A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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 great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Andy Warhol

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.

Porter, Irene

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Freeman, James Dillet

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

Proust, Marcel

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Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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

Bennett, Arnold

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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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.

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I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

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

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Things do not change, we do.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Klee, Paul

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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

Socrates

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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Bryant, William C.

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The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Abernathy

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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Murdock, Mike

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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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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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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese