Motivational Quotes

Change

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

- Byrd, Richard E.

Best Quotes about Change

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Clark, Karen Kaiser

Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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

Murdock, Mike

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Spander, Art

We need to change so we can remain the same.

Serrity, Dorothy

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

Almanac, Mary S.

People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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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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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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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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

Paul, Jean

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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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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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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Tilden, Bill

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Gerhart, Susan

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Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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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

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Porter, Irene

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

Mohammed

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

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Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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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

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

Bellin, Gita

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

Shelton, Richard