Motivational Quotes

Change

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Change

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Pickens, T. Boone

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

Real Live Preacher

Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.

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

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Macmillan, Harold

Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

10.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Schoeder, Caroline

11.

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

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

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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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There are two kinds of fools: One says, This is old therefore it is good. The other one says, This is new therefore it is better.

Inge, Dean William R.

15.

Change yourself, change your fortunes.

Proverb, Portuguese

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

Murdock, Mike

17.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

19.

You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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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.

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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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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Sheehy, Gail

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

26.

Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Paul, Jean

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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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If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi Di

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Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Bailey, Pearl

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

George, David Lloyd

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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

Ovid

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Guthrie, Woody

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

Tracy, Brian

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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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Thus all things are doomed to change for the worse and retrograde.

Virgil

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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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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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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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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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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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