Motivational Quotes

Change

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

Best Quotes about Change

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

Almanac, Mary S.

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

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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

Bennett, Arnold

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.

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

Angelou, Maya

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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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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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

Davis, William B.

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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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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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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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.

Hunt, Trinidad

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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Carlyle, Thomas

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The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I se it, is service to a fellow human being.

Walesa, Lech

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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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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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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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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.

Susan Rice

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

Spencer, Herbert

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Change is an easy panacea. It takes character to stay in one place and be happy there.

Dunn, Elizabeth C.

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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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Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.

Draper, John W.

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

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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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There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

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

Depree, Max

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

George, David Lloyd

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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 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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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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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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A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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Nobody told me how hard and lonely change is.

Gilbertson, Joan

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Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Herodotus

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Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Sinetar, Marsha