Motivational Quotes

Change

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Change

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

Bryson, Lyman L.

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

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.

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

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

10.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Baldwin, James

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

15.

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

16.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

Harrison Ford

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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

Beauvoir, Simone De

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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

Menander of Athens

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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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 the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).

Kundera, Milan

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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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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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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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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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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Dickens, Charles

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

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

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

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Everything flows and nothing abides, everything gives way and nothing stays fixed.

Heraclitus

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah