Motivational Quotes

Change

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

- Dewar, Jeff

Best Quotes about Change

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

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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

Music can't change the world.

Geldof, Bob

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

Porter, Irene

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Peters, Thomas J.

They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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.

10.

People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

11.

Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

12.

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

13.

Any change or reform you make is going to have consequence you don't like.

Udall, Mo

14.

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

Harrison Ford

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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

Murdock, Mike

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Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

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

Heraclitus

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

Tilden, Bill

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

25.

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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

Machiavelli, Niccolo

28.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

30.

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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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

Macarthur, Douglas

33.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Rogers, Will

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Petworth, John

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Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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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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We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.

Lynn Hall

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Don't change horses while crossing a stream.