Motivational Quotes

Change

Change starts when someone sees the next step.

- Drayton, William

Best Quotes about Change

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

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

James Gordon

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

Virgil

The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bennett, Arnold

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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.

10.

There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

11.

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

Tilden, Bill

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

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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

15.

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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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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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Burke, Edmund

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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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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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

Baudrillard, Jean

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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

Schoeder, Caroline

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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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Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

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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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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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That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

Alther, Lisa

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

Bailey, Pearl

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

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

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

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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

Davis, William B.

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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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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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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Depree, Max

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

Felltham, Owen

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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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.